A review by ingridluver
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

"Death—I used to sit here and she used to sit over there and death was as close as you are. ... We didn’t dare even admit we had ever heard of it!"

There is a picture of Van Gogh’s of a billiard-parlour at night. The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colours of childhood’s spectrum.