Streetcar Named Desire Children

A Streetcar Named Desire is a serious play. Not only difficult in its adult concepts but with important relationships between characters that are hard to capture. My idea for the children’s book was for all the characters to be butterflies with the exception of Blanche Dubois. Blanche, I made into a small white moth, as I felt this fit her character best, which was a flitty, frail, middle aged woman. Tennessee Williams chose the character's names specifically and I wanted to highlight that. Blanche, the name, suggests the color white, she is a character who blends into the background, nervous, lying , so I choose a white moth. Stella suggests a star, yellow, shining bright hence a yellow butterfly. And the other characters I choose what I

Alcohol I decided to symbolize with candy, I felt that children would be able to relate to this most. Candy, for children, is something special, understanding why kids sometimes sneak this treat. I took the idea of the “cookie jar” and made a “candy jar”. Blanche, Stanley, Stella take pieces of candy throughout to show each time they drink alcohol. Though children can not quite understand the dangers of this, they know candy is bad, and when they see Blanche eating and stealing pieces of this candy they understand her dangerous, sneaky

Mitch who is just a man, ends up playing a very important role and showing the readers/audience how Blanche acts. This is crucial for developing Blanche’s characters, and especially showing her relationship and interaction with men. It shows her flirtatiousness, her reliance and fascination with men, at the same time she is always weary (for a good reason) and builds an awkward tension in . I felt like I could not include this in the children's book. I think that had I included it, it would have taken away from the story with Blanche and Stella and the more important relationship between the two and Stanley, who really tied the whole story together.. So I tried to focus more on the relationship between Stella, Blanche and Stanley. Two scenes that I felt were also hard to included was a scene where Blanche asks Stanley to button her shirt. This was important as foreshadowing the rape or something happening. However since in this version Blanche was not “raped”, I decided to weave the idea of moths wings into it again, and Blanche asked Stanley to “dust off her wings”. Though kids might not pick up on the subtle hint, it was still important to include. Also scenes where we see Stanley abusing Stella, such as “slapping her on her bottom” I did not included, I tried to use “harsh” language instead, such as when Stanley says “I am the king of the