A Streetcar Named Desire is the story of the pathetic mental and emotional collapse of a fragile, delicate Lady of aristocratic descent who is attempting to make one last play at having a meaningful life. Blanche comes from a once-wealthy family of Mississippi planters who has lost everything including the family estate. She has moved to the French Quarter to live with her sister and sister’s husband in hopes that she can make a …showed first 75 words of 1781 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1781 total…from the aristocratic upbringing of a Mississippi plantation family to a weak, pathetic, lunatic who is taken out of a dirty flat in the French Quarters by a mental asylum. The final act that shatters her weak personality is the brutality of a man and nearly all of her descent is orchestrated by men but the most basic reason for her fall is her own inability to cope with the brutality and savageness of reality.