2/23/12 Journal

Today I started reading one of our required plays, A Streetcar Named Desire. The play takes place in New Orleans in the 1940's. Scene one starts with Stanley and Mitch meeting Stanley's wife, Stella, outside of the Elysian Fields building. Stanley and Mitch are on their way to go bowling, and Stella asks if she can watch. She begins to follow them, but runs into Eunice and Blanche, her alcoholic sister who she had not seen in a while. Blanche is shocked to see where her sister is living. After Stella explains her living situation to her sister, the begin to talk about Blanche's job as a school teacher, and how Stella thought she had been fired. Blanche explains how she was not fired, but her boss told her to take a leave of absence.