![]() ![]() We learn that Blanche was once married, when she was very young, but her husband died, leaving her widowed and alone. Blanche meets her sister's husband, Stanley, for the first time, and immediately she feels uncomfortable. Blanche stayed behind to care for their dying family while Stella left to make a new life for herself, and Blanche is clearly resentful by her sister's abandonment of the family. ![]() Blanche and Stella have a warm reunion, but Blanche has some bad news: Belle Reve, the family mansion, has been lost. Blanche Dubois, Stella's older sister, arrives unexpectedly, carrying all that she owns. It is summertime, and the heat is oppressive. Stella, twenty-five years old and pregnant, lives with her blue collar husband Stanley Kowalski. The Kowalski apartment is in a poor but charming neighborhood in the French Quarter. The play takes place right after World War II, in New Orleans, Louisiana. ![]()
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