You won’t lose your job just because you are not working for a certain amount of time.īlanche doesn’t like Stanley. The idea of a leave of absence is that you can come back to your old job. You can take a leave of absence for a lot of different reasons it depends on the company you work for and what they will allow you to do. If a woman, for example, is going to have a baby, she might take a leave of absence, or a father might take a leave of absence to help take care of his new child. Sometimes you get paid while you are gone, sometimes you don’t. A “leave (leave) of absence (absence)” is when you take time off of your work – where you leave work for a week or a month usually it’s for a longer period of time. She tells them that she is taking a leave of absence from her work. In the story, Stella’s sister, named Blanche, arrives to stay with Stanley and Stella for a short time. So, they don’t have a lot of money together. Stella loves Stanley and decides to give up her rich way of living in order to be with him. So, you have this poor husband and a rich wife. Stella grew up in a wealthy, or rich, family. He was not respected by other people, but he married a rich woman named Stella.
He’s a man who grew up in a poor part of the city. In the play and the movie, Stanley Kowalski is the main character. People like my father, who fought in World War II, were certainly affected by those experiences, and some people believe in part that’s what A Streetcar Named Desire is trying to understand. There was definitely an impact of that experience on American culture. This was a time right after World War II, when the country was beginning to adjust to the new realities of not only its economy, but also the changes that were caused by having so many young men go over and fight in a war. It takes place during the late 1940s, about the time when Tennessee Williams wrote the play. This story is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, which is in the southeastern or, really, south-central part of the United States. When we say a movie or a book is “set” (set) somewhere, we mean that’s where it takes place – that’s where the story happens. And in 1951, the movie was released.Ī Streetcar Named Desire, if you have not seen it, is set in New Orleans, Louisiana. Williams himself decided to help adapt, or change the script of, the play so that it would work as a movie. Tennessee Williams won the top award for literature in the United States, the Pulitzer Prize, for this play in 1948. A Streetcar Named Desire was a play written by one of the best playwrights – one of the best people who wrote plays – in the United States during the middle of the twentieth century, Tennessee Williams. This movie was released in 1951, and it was extremely popular because it had been a popular play before it was a movie. But generally, we’re talking about an older book or an older movie. In fact, sometimes people say, “This book is an instant classic” – it’s a classic, or should be considered as a classic, right now, without waiting for years to go by before we decide that it was one of the great books or movies or whatever it happens to be. But there’s no rule about how old something has to be before it’s a classic. “Classic” often gives you the idea that it’s something that was produced, or made, many years ago. We could talk about the classic movies of the 1950s and 60s, or we could talk about the classic cars of the 1940s and 50s. The word often refers to great pieces of art, such as a film or a book, that are from a long time ago, that were produced a long time ago. Anything, I suppose, could be described as being classic. “Classic” can be used to describe a lot of different things, not just movies and books. It’s considered to be one of the best of a particular category or kind of artwork. When we say a movie or a book is “classic” (classic), we mean it’s considered to be great. We’re talking about another classic American movie, called A Streetcar Named Desire. And, as always, we’ll answer a few of your questions. We’ll also talk about Bryce Canyon National Park in the state of Utah. This one is called A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Go there and download a Learning Guide for this episode right after you become a member of ESL Podcast. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California. This is English as a Second Language Podcast’s English Café episode 438. Nothing is the same in their lives after that.You’re listening to ESL Podcast’s English Café number 438. When something terrible happens to her, he seeks revenge. Xia Mu is a troubled child whose salvation comes in the form of Shu Yawang.