a streetcar named desire
... political relevance of that period. The topics I will link to the play are;, New Orleans, the Varsouviana polka and the life of Tennessee Williams. I will explain the significance of these themes in relation with the play by giving different explanations and evidence. The Varsouviana is the polka tune to which Blanche and her young husband, Allan Grey, were dancing when she last saw him alive. Earlier that day, she had discover Allan, in bed with an older male friend. The three of them then went out dancing together, pretending that nothing had happened. In the middle of the dancing, Blanche told Allan that he “disgusted” her. He ran away and shot him self in the head. The polka music plays at various points in” A Streetcar Named Desire”, when Blanche is feeling melancholia for Allen’s death. The first time we hear it is in Scene One, when Stanley meets Blanche and asks her about her husband .Sce...