Movie Analysis: A Streetcar Named Desire

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The movie starts out taking place in Phoenix Arizona in an apartment building. Marion Crane is getting involved with Sam. Marion woks as a banker and as a man is buying a home for his daughter he pays in cash. 40,000 dollars in cash that Marion later stole to start a life with Sam. Along the way she stops at Bates Hotel to spend the night but then she started talking to Norman Bates. Someone kills Marion in the shower so an investigator comes to look for her. Marion's sister helps look for her and she knows something is wrong with the Bates house.

"A some is a son substitute for a lover." Norman Bates says this when he is talking to Marion the night she was murdered. I think that Norman is almost in love with his mother because of the way

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