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Vlasopolos, Anca. Victimization in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Theatre Journal. 38(1986): 322-338.


Vlasopolos argues that A Streetcar Named Desire was a play directed to have ethical and generic aspects that may have lead to a classical tragedy. She criticized Williams' lack of specifying a tone that he wanted to set for the play. A modern tragedy is what Vlasopolos described A Streetcar Named Desire. This article summarized the movie as a whole and explained the character's points in the way they did things. Males were the dominant figures in the household and if that was taken away form them, they were real quick to gain it back. Blanche was given that name to describe how pale and confused she was. Stanley is described as a male who likes for things to go by his way or the highway. A sociopoilitical crisis(Vlasopolos) was said to be in the air with Blanche getting caught up and put out, Mitch leaving Blanche, Stella upset with Stanley and taking the baby with her to their neighbor's apartment and Stanley calling up the stairs " Hey Stella" again. To show how the men were more important, Stanley's mistakes were not looked down on like Blache's mistakes were.