Post 3: After reading the whole play- Paula Orozco

I think the most important ideas/themes in this play are:
-Love: Mitch: You need somebody. And I need somebody too. Could it be you and me, Blanche? (p.123)

-Sex: Stanley: ...They locked her out of that high school before the spring term ended and I hate to tell you the reason that step was taken! A seventeen-year-old boy she'd gotten mixed up with! (p.133)

-Death and tragedy: Blanche: I ran out all did! all ran and gathered about the terrible thing at the edge of the lake! I couldn't get near for the crowding. Then somebody caught my arm. "Don't go any closer! Come back! You don't want to see!" See? See what! Then I heard voices say-- Allan! Allan! The Grey boy! He'd stuck the revolver into his mouth, and fired-- so that the back of his head had been-- blown away! (p.126)

-Illusion and reality: Stella: I could't believe her story and go on living with Stanley. (p.180)

-Loneliness: Blanche: I think you have a great capacity of devotion. You will be lonely when she passes on, won't you?
I undestand what that is. (p.125)

-Memory: Blanche: Something's the matter tonight, but never mind. I won't cross- examine the witness. I'll just--[She touches her forehead vaguely. The polka tune starts up again.]--pretend I don't notice anything different about you! That--music again...
Mitch: What music?
Blanche: The "Varaouviana"! The polka tune that were playing when Allan--Wait! (p.153)

In my opinion, the title has two meanings, one that is literal and the other that is figurative. The literal meaning of "Desire" refers to the name of the Streetcar that brought Blanche to the Kowalskis' house and the figurative meaning, refers to different scenes or situations in which desire is involved. These situations are when Blanche had to leave the town because of her fornications in the Flamingo hotel and she had no other choice but to go to New Orleans; when she had sex with a seventeen-year-old boy student of hers and as a consequence she was fired from her job; when her ancestors lost Belle Reve for their epic fornications; when she found her husband having sex with another man and he killed himself; and finally when she was raped by Stanley.

The play made me think about human beings' necessity of having someone to talk, to express feelings, to share experiences. It's true that if we don't have a friend or a relative to talk about some difficult situations, we would feel alone in the world.
What's more, while I was reading I thought of those people who invent an artifical word so as to hide their real personality or lifestyle. In my opinion, that "virtual reality" will be reveal sooner or later.

If I got the chance to ask the writer one question I would ask him why is it that Mitch is alone if he is presented as a gentleman that is actually looking for a woman to get married.