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Book Review of A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire
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Blanche DuBois is the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. Stanley Kowalski is a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blanche's tragedy.