Philip C. Kolin, an English critic and author, hailed A Streetcar Named Desire as: “Not surprisingly, Streetcar quickly became a staple on the world stage, one of the major theatrical experiences and experiments of the twentieth century” (Kolin2). Concerning the origin of the play, there are many autobiographical elements in Williams’ play. His relationship with his family was difficult. His mother, like Blanche, was a faded southern woman who often lamented her lost opportunities to marry well. His father, an arrogant man, dismissed his son as a weakling and may have been a model for the aggressive masculinity of Stanley. He returns home drunk and goes into rage against Williams’ mother and hits her abruptly as Stanley always does with Stella. Williams’ sister, Rose, had several breakdowns and, like Blanche, spent the last part of her life in a mental hospital. And also William’s homosexuality drives him to create the character of Allan, Blanche’s dead husband, who was homosexual in the time when homosexuality was illegal just as William himself. A Streetcar Named Desire was published just after World War II. When the play came out, the country had just emerged from the war after struggling through the Great Depression of 1930 's, and suddenly the national spotlight concentrated on the lower and middle classes as the true supporters of the heroic American spirit. The male characters in this play represent the everyday American that society supported after the Great