Streetcar context

Question 1

Was Tennessee Williams gay?

Answer 1

Yes - he was perceived as an effeminate gay man who was discriminated against for it since childhood

Question 2

True or false: Williams’s father was an abusive alcoholic?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

What was Williams’s mother considered?

Answer 3

A Southern Belle

Question 4

Did Williams’s sister Rose deal with mental health issues?

Answer 4

Yes and was institutionalised

Question 5

Who served as inspirations for Stanley?

Answer 5

Tennessee’s father, his boyfriend Pancho Rodriguez e Gonzales

Question 6

What was popular literature of the South at the time?

Answer 6

Southern Gothic - based of off the state of the South post-Civil War e.g. Edgar Allan Poe William Faulkner ‘As I lay dying’

Question 7

What are the characteristics of the Southern Gothic genre prevalent in Streetcar?

Answer 7

Moral and physical decay (Blanche and the Old South), the grotesque history (slavery, plantations - Belle Reve),