Tennessee Williams gives insight into three ordinary lives in his play, “A Streetcar Named Desire” which is set in the mid-1930’s in New Orleans. The main characters in the play are Blanche, Stanley, and Stella. All three of these characters suffer from personalities that differentiate each of them to great extremes. Because of these dramatic contrarieties in attitudes, there are mounting conflicts between the characters throughout the play. The principal conflict lies between Blanche …showed first 75 words of 743 total…

…showed last 75 words of 743 total…for them both to stay in such proximity to one another and not get in each other’s way. Both were fighting for their own cause, trying to justify themselves and destroy each other. It seemed as if they were both concerned for Stella’s well-being, but inwardly both were fighting for the pride of the lifestyle they maintained, or in Blanche’s case, the lifestyle she once had, and longed to have once again.