A Streetcar Named Desire – The Typical Lost Dream of the South
A Streetcar Named Desire – The Typical Lost Dream of the South

Summary/Abstract: The 1960’s was the decade in which Tennessee Williams saw his winning streak as a popular dramatist come to an end, and Arthur Miller,wearing a new philosophical look, returned to the theater. From the successful production of “The Glass Menagerie” in 1945 until well into the 1960’s, Tennessee Williams averaged rather better than a play every two years, most of which had respectable New York runs – 100 performances or more. Working for the most part in Southern settings and presenting somewhat lurid surface events, Williams told again and again the story of an outsider, one of the fugitive kind, who by virtue of his /her differentness, his artistic inclinations, his sexual proclivities, his physical defects – becomes a victim of an uncongenial society. As the number of plays grew, it became clear that, for Williams, all men are outsiders and the enemy is the character himself or time eating at him or a godless universe, from which there is no escape, and the best he can do is to take what comfort he can from the temporary palliative, sex

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