streetcar critics

• Miller


  "Streetcar is a cry of pain"
• Bloom


  "[Stanley is] amiably brutal"
• Bigsby


  "[the setting depicts] a culture on the turn"
• Gillian Anderson


  "sexuality was their currency. Blanche uses it to the nth degree, but it is also Stella's currency."
• Bubb


  "not a single male character to who we can look for a truly positive embodiment of masculinity"
• Williams


  "I am Blanche DuBois"
• Koprince on Eunice and Steve


  "a facsimile of a dysfunctional relationship which normalises Stanley's abuse"
• Guilbert


  "[a feminist play preoccupied with] gender roles and the rigidity of gender roles society enforces"
• Bently + Boxill


  "a socio-historical drama"
• Burks


  "social Darwinist struggle for survival between two 'species' of human beings"