A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is set in New Orleans, Louisiana. The play begins in the evening, early May of 1947, featuring a two-story corner building on an avenue named Elysian Fields, and ends in late September of the same year. The United States in 1947, when the play was written and set in, was run by President Harry Truman, post-World War II ... issues. The Taft-Hartley labor law was passed, labor was unrest, segregation and the KKK was alive and well. Women were out of work after the war and returned to traditional roles. Stella Kowalski plays the traditional role o...

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