Class and Ethnic Animus in the Changing America of A Streetcar Named Desire

This analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire interprets Blanche DuBois' decline as Tennessee Williams' commentary on the end of the American South, where Stanley Kowalski's conquest of Blanche symbolizes the triumph of modernity and America's changing demographics over the aging, irrelevant WASP aristocracy of the South.
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