An analysis of the three main characters in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and the importance of survival to each.

Tennessee Williams definitely created very interesting characters when he wrote A Streetcar Named Desire. The main characters oppose each other in style, in speech, in lifestyle and in culture, but one thing they all seem to have in common is an inexplicable void in their life, an unhappiness and a great sense of incompleteness. The four main characters see their survival as very important and throughout the play it is evident how they undermine each …

…she is expecting gives her new hope, and she is excited to share this with her husband, but at first she was reluctant to tell Blanche about the baby. Stella has accepted her life and her fate, and is happy to do her best to please everyone around her. These three characters from the basis of an emotionally charged confrontation between the traditional values of the American South, and the changing values of modern America.