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 ... 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 of a wife of the late 1940s. She is carrying his child, waits on him hand and foot and is sometimes physically abused by her husband ... her brother-in-law that night. The constant music coming from the barroom piano k...

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