This week I was lent a book by a friend. Well, technically its a play, but anyhow it is literature.
It was SO good! I would recommend A Streetcar Named Desire to ANYBODY. It's all about this couple who are quite an odd pair. They wife is of a relatively nice back round and the husband is as ordinary as the day is long. Their marriage works simply because they are deeply in love with one another. Even through strikes are aimed towards Stella (the wife), they still make it.
Stella's sister Blanche comes to stay with the couple for the summer. Through the story we as readers must put together Blanche's real life story. She claims to loose the family estate after many deaths that drain her of every penny. However, we later learn that she stayed at a few hotels and had many lovers before coming to mooch off of her sister. Blanche is obviously a very unstable person and at the end of the play she is taken away so that Stella and Stanley (the husband) can live a peaceful life together with their new baby.
Again, I really recommend this play to anyone. I haven't seen the film with our Waterfront's Brando, but I've heard that this is also very good.
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