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The Attitude to and Treatment of Women in A Streetcar Named Desire. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams has a great deal to say about the rôle of, the function of and the attitude towards women, which tend to reflect not only the thoughts of people in Williams' society, but modern attitudes as well. Blanche and Stella are highly detailed characters, and one can sort Williams' development of them into six categories: their clothes and appearances; their personalities, including their flaws and weaknesses; the language used by the two women and how it differs from that of other characters; the treatment of the two women by the men in the play; their treatment of each other; and finally the conflicts that each of the women gets involved in. The last three categories may be examined as one, since the treatment of the women and their conflicts are almost the same...

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