Print Unscramble Letters Game: A Streetcar Named Desire - setting (gcse - setting - tennessee williams - english 20th century literature

1. In A Streetcar Named Desire , Blanche DuBois takes two cars, first "Desire," then "_________".

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2. A Streetcar Named Desire is set in the late 1940s in New Orleans but a specific address in that city: 632 _____ ______ Avenue, “running between the L & N [railroad] tracks and the [Mississippi] River,” adjacent to the ______ ______.

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3. An actual street in New Orleans, Elysian Fields was named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, but unlike that elegant French boulevard of shops and restaurants, it was always a mixed commercial and residential area for the ______ ______.

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4. The street where Stella lives, like Stella herself, possesses a grander, old-world heritage that has fallen in ______.

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5. In almost every way, Elysian Fields represents the ________ of where Blanche comes from and what she is used to.

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6. Blanche appears _______ to Elysian Fields. This emphasizes the themes: the clash of the rural Old South with the industrial New South; the decline of illusion in the face of reality.

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7. This incongruity also telegraphs the inability of the weak and well-bred to survive in the modern world of vulgar but vital commoners. Ultimately, this setting proves malevolent to Blanche and is instrumental in her ______.

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