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20th-Century American Literature Videos 31 videos

The Giver Summary
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A Streetcar Named Desire 761 Views


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Lies, loser husbands, and loads of debauchery—wait...isn't this supposed to be about a streetcar?


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Thank you We sneak in a streetcar named desire Allah

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shmoop sure Maybe it wasn't the smartest idea to crash

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at my sister's place when i first laid eyes on

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it Well i was positive I had the wrong address

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but i had no choice I was plumb worn out

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from taking care of my aylin family and trying to

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save bill rev from ruin My nerves were shot And

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besides stella owed me big time Can you believe she

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had the nerve to leave it behind and take care

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everything while she was out gallivanting in new orleans with

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that polish husband of his stanley kowalski and don't even

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get me started on stanley is nothing but a worthless

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drunk And he was so demanding And my dear little

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sister who just happened to be expecting their first child

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if you ask me he's nothing more than a cave

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man And why on as she went back to that

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big eight i'll never understand See I told you i

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shouldn't talk about him now It was oh rat stanley

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riel peach and his friends were no better Mind you

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Except of course for mitch That big handsome fellow took

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a real shine old blanche that i was ever fun

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lated In fact mitch would have proposed to me of

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stanley hadn't gone and stuck his big nose My fist

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family was convinced i had absconded with stella's inheritance He

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kept carrying on about the napoleonic code and how man

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is entitled to have his wife's money one that while

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i was settling my nerves with a nest soak i

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heard stanley runnin his mouth telling stella terrible lies about

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me Stella bless her heart defended me but she of

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course just had two go into labor that tends to

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put a stop on mottaki on bad mitch over to

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keep me company But stanley had gotten to him first

01:39

We fed mitch the same load of baloney He told

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stella and mitch Well let's just say mitch didn't think

01:45

i was such a refined lady anymore Those blanche dubois

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party of one again And when one's at a party

01:52

it's only polite to have a drink twelve but my

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party was over When stanley returned from the hospital i

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told him i was leaving I was going on a

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cruise with my millionaire bo i was going to blow

02:04

This popsicle stand and leave stanley the barbarian behind And

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anyone who says that isn't the truth is absolutely crazy

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Then stanley got a sinister look in his eyes And

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with that i collapsed Stella wouldn't believe it When i

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told you this stanley had attacked me Infact she thought

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i was crazy as a loon It was a good

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thing that my millionaire but was coming to take me

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away on our cruise and when he showed up at

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the door well he wasn't a gentleman caller but a

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gentleman then bless he looked mass enough and i've always

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said a lady should depend on the kindness of strangers

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As we left i could hear mitch saying something Something

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along the lines of blanches story was true and i

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could hear stella calling my name but no matter I'm

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sure that ate comforted her As for me i'm looking

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forward to love the cruise It should do wonders for 00:02:51.771 --> [endTime] my constitution

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