Blanche comes to live with her sister and her sister's husband. She loses her grip on reality as she fails to get what it is she desires.

A play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947.

The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, After the loss of her family home to creditors, travels from Laurel, Mississippi, to the New Orleans French Quarter to live with her younger married sister, Stella, and Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski. She has no money and nowhere else to go.

Williams' most popular work, A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the twentieth century. It still ranks among his most performed plays.