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Question: Whos seen A streetcar named Desire!? Wanna help me answer this question!?
Basically, I want to know why Tenesse Williams chose to set the play in New Orleans and if the setting had an impact on the protaganist Blanche
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Thomas Lanier Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911!. After spending most of his youth in St!. Louis, Missouri, Tennessee (a name he chose because of his family's extensive roots in that state) moved to a New Orleans rooming house in the winter of 1938 and remained there through the spring of 1939!. Proclaiming New Orleans his favorite city in America, perhaps in the world (Williams and Mead, p!. 73), Williams returned there in 1945 to write A Streetcar Named Desire, a play that dramatizes the social and economic transition between traditional Southern life and the newly industrialized South!.

A Streetcar Named Desire chronicles the defeat of an aristocratic Southern belle by a new working-class society!. What befalls Blanche DuBois in Williams's play befell many upper-class Southerners as industrialization swept away their traditional power base!. The decline of the Southern aristocracy that had begun with the Confederate defeat in the Civil War was openly evident by World War I (191418)!. Long after the war, which ended in 1865, the South continued to be a region with a mostly agrarian economy controlled by wealthy landowners!. The late 1800s saw the growth of iron and textile industries in the South, but progress was slow until the arrival of World War I brought rapid industrialization in the form of factories supporting the war effort of America and Europe!. Though the U!.S!. did not officially enter World War I until 1917, a labor shortage developed in Southern agriculture as a result of the mobilization of men for both military and defense-industry needs!. Owners of vast stretches of land, without laborers to work their farms, moved to urban areas, as did smaller farmers, who preferred steady paychecks at the mills to inconsistent incomes from raising livestock and growing cotton and other cash crops!.

***This is just a "taste" of a larger article you could find online through your local library Web site - if they subscribe to Literature Resource Center!.

Source: Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire, in Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them, Volume 4: World War II to the Affluent Fifties (19401950s), edited by Joyce Moss and George Wilson, Gale Research, 1997!.

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He set it in New Orleans because at that time that city was known as "The Kids Who Do Their Own Homework" capital of the United States and he felt that by setting it there he'd be setting an example for kids across the nation!.Www@QuestionHome@Com