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media type="youtube" key="CxGN29njs3Q" Excerpt from "A Streetcar Named Desire," directed by Elia Kazan.

Poem relating to Blanche's inability to forget her first love - his absence shapes her view of the world ... [|CLICK HERE]

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Excerpts from "A Streetcar Named Desire," written by Tennessee Williams:

"Genuine fox fur-pieces! A half a mile long! Where are your fox-pieces, Stella...Pearls! Ropes of them! What is this sister of yours, a deep-sea diver? Bracelets of solid gold, too! Where are your pearls and gold bracelets?" (Williams, 36).

"Western Union? Yes! I-want to-Take down this message! 'In desperate, desperate circumstances! Help me!'" (Williams, 128).

"And look at yourself! Take a look at yourself in that worn-out Mardi Gras outfit, rented for fifty cents from some rag-picker! And with that crazy crown on!" (Williams, 127).

"I don't want realism. I want magic!" (Williams, 117).

"Whoever you are-I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" (Williams, 142).

PICTURES: "Self Portrait" by May Robert Mapplethorpe - (top left) "Untitled" by Scott Mutter - (top right)

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