... DuBois succinctly summarizes herself and her vision of the world with two words: "I misrepresent."" (A Streetcar Named Desire, hereafter SND, p. 117 ). In fact, she misrepresents virtually everything about herself and her world. For Blanche DuBois, the world ... the woman on the stoop; on another they symbolize her life journey and state a major theme of the play: They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at "Elysian Fields.- (1) To clearly illustrate how the setting in ... Griffin suggests "The Elysian Fi...

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