Streetcar context Flashcards
Was Tennessee Williams gay?
Yes - he was perceived as an effeminate gay man who was discriminated against for it since childhood
True or false: Williams’s father was an abusive alcoholic?
Yes
What was Williams’s mother considered?
A Southern Belle
Did Williams’s sister Rose deal with mental health issues?
Yes and was institutionalised
Who served as inspirations for Stanley?
Tennessee’s father, his boyfriend Pancho Rodriguez e Gonzales
What was popular literature of the South at the time?
Southern Gothic - based of off the state of the South post-Civil War e.g. Edgar Allan Poe William Faulkner ‘As I lay dying’
What are the characteristics of the Southern Gothic genre prevalent in Streetcar?
Moral and physical decay (Blanche and the Old South), the grotesque history (slavery, plantations - Belle Reve),
