Streetcar Named Desire Realism

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Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, has many realistic elements as well as non- realistic elements. One of the non- realistic elements is music heard by Blanche whenever she thinks of her dead husband which adds to her losing a grip on life. The songs used in the play intensifies and heighten the action of the play.

In scene one the sound of “Blue Piano” plays when Blanche goes to Alysian Fields,and is dominant when she recounts the deaths at Belle Reve. In scene five while she kisses the young man from the newspaper the song plays again. The song is finally heard in scene eleven when the doctor takes Blanche off to the asylum.

Blue piano” helps add to the dramatic mood of the scenes like in scene ten. It also helps the audience

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