The title of this play
comes from a line that is uttered by Blanche herself in Scene 1 of this play just after she
arrives at her sister's home. Note what she says:
They
told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride
six blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!
It is
important to realise that the names of these different locations have immense importance. Desire
is precisely what Blanche has followed, and as a result she has experienced a kind of death,
indicated in the name of Cemeteries, as she has been branded a social outcast. Now, she has
arrived...
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