Definition of A streetcar named desire (play)

This article is about the Tennessee Williams play. For other uses, see A Streetcar Named Desire (disambiguation).

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. It was both a critical and box office success at the time.

The play is considered in modern society as an icon of its era, as it deals with a culture clash between two symbolic characters, Blanche DuBois—a pretentious, fading relic of the  Old South—and  Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, inner-city immigrant class.