A contributor to numerous journals. Moodserved as an English professor at Ball State University. In this excerpt, he examines the symbolic nature of Blanche DuBois 's entrance dialogue in A Streetcar Named Desire.
One of the most provocative entrance speeches in drama is the well-known enigmatic statement by Blanche DuBois, the second of Williams' numerous compelling women, in A Streetcar Named Desire:
BLANCHE [with faintly hysterical humor]: They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemetenes and nde six blocks and then get off at—Elysian Fields!
These words have often been noted and discussed for both their realistic and symbolic significance. They have never been examined, however, as a clue to the structural development and design of the play itself and of the course of the life and.....
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