A Streetcar Named Desire is a famous play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams in 1947. The author was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A Streetcar Named Desire is supposed to be one of the best plays of the 20th century. It provided Tennessee Williams with the international face. What do you think about the plot of this play? Have you noticed the problem of drug and alcohol abuse there? When you read A Streetcar Named Desire, you notice a great number of words and expressions related with alcohol and drugs. I want to analyze the effect of drug and alcohol abuse on the characters of this play.
It is possible to observe the problem of alcohol abuse on the example of the main characters of the play. We can notice that Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski are closely connected with alcohol. However, the effect of alcohol on these characters is different.
