“A Streetcar Named Desire” is a tremendously enjoyable, deep, and thematic play written by Tennessee Williams in 1951. Poker games play a big part in the drama. The poker game in the play is a metaphor that reflects the interactions of the characters throughout the play. The story is set in the great city of New Orleans where Blanche visits her sister Stella and her working class husband, Stanley. Specifically, Stanley and Blanche don’t like each other. An example of Blanche’s attitude towards Stanley is in this quote “What such a man has to offer is animal force…. But the only way to live with such a man is to – go to bed with him! And that’s your job – not mine!" (4.90) Also they are always fighting because Stella wants to give her sister a place to stay but Stanley does not “You didn’t know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.” (8.50). Stanley and blanche behaves as two poker players that are determined to win. Poker is a game of approach and trickery and there can only be one victor. The story begins in the sparkling city of happiness, New Orleans, where Blanche; an English teacher who was flushed in her career (deservedly so) just like one would get flushed in a poker game. Blanche gets caught having an affair with a seventeen-year-old student and loses her job as a result. She also ends up losing every single one whom she loves and cherishes because of their death as she said,