# A Streetcar Named Desire

**Author:** Tennessee Williams
**Grade range:** Grades 11–12
**Age range:** 15–18
**First published:** 1947
**Page count:** 192
**Genre:** Drama
**ISBN-13:** `9780811216029`
**ISBN-10:** `0811216020`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-streetcar-named-desire
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings the fading Blanche DuBois to her sister Stella's cramped New Orleans apartment, where she collides with Stella's brutal husband, Stanley Kowalski. As Blanche's illusions unravel under Stanley's pressure, the drama examines desire, class, mental fragility, and the gap between fantasy and reality. Reserved for mature eleventh- and twelfth-grade and AP classes, it is a frequent choice for studying American postwar theater.

## Themes

- mental health
- illusion and reality
- class
- gender
- social class

## Content notes

- sexual assault
- domestic violence
- mental illness

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