James Preselo A streetcar named desire – survival of the fittest Not only is a ‘streetcar named desire’ a social commentary about life and times in New Orleans around the forties, but it is also a play about humanity and the way the modern world is turning out. Tennessee Williams is concerned about modern day humanity which is represented in Blanche’s struggle to adopt to the new world where people like Stanley are the dominator’…showed first 75 words of 1603 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1603 total…to be asked whether it is actually a bad thing that the values of the Old World are being diminished to make way for values where people are judged by who they are, instead of the possessions they have. This type of attitude may be worse than the attitudes possessed by the people of the New World, which inevitably leads to Blanche being classified as being mad and has to be removed from the society.