Context

Question 1

Author

Answer 1

Tennessee Williams
Parents had a “wrong marriage”
24 - Suffered nervous breakdown
Homosexual in a difficult time

Question 2

Streetcar Significance

Answer 2

Actual streetcar from 1920 to 1948
Desire -> Cemeteries -> Elysian Fields
Desire leads to death, the afterlife
Trams run on predetermined tracks

Question 3

Setting

Answer 3

New Orleans (French Quarter) - 1947
After WW2 - Time of change and liberalisation - the new, industrial and rough America

Question 4

Epigraph

Answer 4

Introduces the idea of a “broken world”, love and desperation before play begins

Question 5

Laurel vs New Orleans

Answer 5

New Orleans - Bright, diverse and upcoming. Popular for immigrants. Tolerant and liberal
Laurel - Old traditional, low diversity and conservative values.

Question 6

Gay

Answer 6

Homosexual - Faced rejection at many levels

Question 7

Depression

Answer 7

Suffered from depression after partner Frank died

Question 8

Alcoholism

Answer 8

Father was an alcoholic. Stanley Seen to be modelled after his father.
Died whilst intoxicated

Question 9

Insanity

Answer 9

Sister was mentally ill and was institutionalised

Question 10

‘The world I live in’

Answer 10

In an interview with himself describes how plays are a kind of therapy for him

Question 11

Set Post WW2

Answer 11

A time of huge social and economic change, Large amounts of Immigration and new culture, seeing the dawn of a New America