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A Streetcar Named Desire  

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A Streetcar Named Desire - V.EVANS 1)Scene one creates an environment in which the reader should feel welcome; this is to be achieved by the impressions that the reader gets of the quarters. I see the quarter as being a 'poor' area in 'decay', which might have been a once prosperous area as the buildings are described as having 'ornamented gables' and 'galleries' which to me suggests that at the time of building the houses the area was much wealthier. The use of the word decay also suggests that there has been an aesthetic change for the worst, Williams describes the houses as being 'mostly white frame, weathered grey'. Despite the lack of money in the area, 'Elysian Fields' has a 'warm' sense of happiness and contentment about it, Williams actually uses the word warm in his stage directions to illustrate physical warmth of the area and the warmth of the...

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