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Thomas Lanier Williams, known as Tennessee Williams, was a man of contradictions and clashing passions, so were his short fictions and plays. “A Street Car Named Desire” was one of his most successful and most performed plays. The title of the play has relations with the specific location; New Orleans is actually served by streetcars named “Desire” and “Cemetery”. The action might be summed up as Blanche’s (the main character of the play) emotional journey from desire to madness. The play is consisted of eleven scenes and scene by scene Blanche is approaching her doom. The play can be summarized as Blanche Du Bois visits her sister, cannot get on well with her sister Stella’s husband Stanley, then falls in love with Stanley’s best friend Mitch, tells about her past but all of the things she says are full of controversies, Stanley learns the truth, punishes her, and finally Blanche is taken away from them by the doctor. So focusing on the last parts of the play, when Blanche is leaving the house is fundamental. Because it symbolizes Blanche’s fall, precipitated in part by her desperate flight from reality towards an illusionary refu