A Streetcar Named Desire is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The film was nominated for twelve nominations and won four Oscars. It is a theatrical play with elements of tragedy. The show opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York City on December 3, 1947. The show's producer Charles Feldman sold the production to Warner Bros. The show was written by Tennessee Williams. Williams is considered the greatest playwright of the South and one of the greatest playwrights in the history of American drama. Williams' first work was "The Glass Menagerie", produced in 1945. Williams' works were adapted into films starring screen greats such as Marlon Brando who played Stanley and Elizabeth Taylor who appeared in the on-screen show. William described his childhood as pleasant and happy. But when he moved to Missouri everything changed. His house was a tense game to live in. In 1929 he enrolled at the University of Missouri to study journalism. His father withdrew him once he became angry that his son's girlfriend was also attending college. So he left, but still continued his journey and worked on his next career. Many of Williams' plays were a look at his life. The genre of this novel was tragedy. It was a tragedy because the boy Gray, Blanche's husband, had put a gun in his mouth and shot, blowing off the back of his head. He did this because he felt that no one would accept him for who he really was, a homosexual. The purpose of this literacy criticism/analysis article is to demonstrate how the critic used literary tools such as characters, setting, theme, and imagery to criticize the author's work. Critic Henthorne states that the character Blanche DuBois often played… . middle of the paper ......characteristic traits comparing that person to a certain animal. Animals often represent the power of the subconscious. Neither reviewer gleaned the same data from the novel. But they both played the kind of character Blanche actually was. That he was a solitary individual who used his imagination to shield himself from the real world. In the finale, Blanche has a nervous breakdown after being attacked and allegedly raped by Stanley. Rape is never definitively confirmed in the play, but it is heavily implied. Given Stanley's animalistic behavior, it is usually assumed that the rape actually occurred, although Stella refused to believe it. Blanche is admitted to a psychiatric institution, now being totally immersed in her fantasy world and severing all ties with reality. This is where Blanche says her famous line about depending on the kindness of strangers.