Streetcar setting
Setting Analysis Key quotes
Elysian Fields The Kowalskis’ street, ‘They told me to take a
named for the land of the street-car named Desire,
dead in greek mythology. and transfer to one called
The journey that Blanche Cemeteries, and rise six
describing making from the blocks and get off at- Elysian
train station to the Fields!’
apartment is an allegorical
version of her life up to this
point in time ‘desire’ and
cemeteries’. Her illicit
persuit of her sexual
‘desires’ led to her social
death and expulsion from
her hometown of Laurel,
Mississippi.
Belle Reve
New Orleans By Stella running away and
marrying Stanley, she
removed herself from the
elite social stratum to which
her family belonged,
thereby abandoning all its
pretensions, codes of
behaviour and sexual
mores.
Setting Analysis Key quotes
Elysian Fields The Kowalskis’ street, ‘They told me to take a
named for the land of the street-car named Desire,
dead in greek mythology. and transfer to one called
The journey that Blanche Cemeteries, and rise six
describing making from the blocks and get off at- Elysian
train station to the Fields!’
apartment is an allegorical
version of her life up to this
point in time ‘desire’ and
cemeteries’. Her illicit
persuit of her sexual
‘desires’ led to her social
death and expulsion from
her hometown of Laurel,
Mississippi.
Belle Reve
New Orleans By Stella running away and
marrying Stanley, she
removed herself from the
elite social stratum to which
her family belonged,
thereby abandoning all its
pretensions, codes of
behaviour and sexual
mores.
