<P> Blanche DuBois arrives , penniless , in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brother - in - law Stanley Kowalski . A former schoolteacher from a wealthy family , she has been evicted from her family home , `` Belle Reve '' , after the deaths of several family members wiped out her and Stella 's inheritance . It is also later revealed that , years earlier , her husband , Allan Grey , committed suicide after she caught him having sex with another man . She had a series of meaningless affairs to numb her grief , and was soon thrown out of her hometown of Laurel , Mississippi , as a `` woman of loose morals '' after sleeping with one of her high school English students . </P>
<P> Blanche DuBois arrives , penniless , in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brother - in - law Stanley Kowalski . A former schoolteacher from a wealthy family , she has been evicted from her family home , `` Belle Reve '' , after the deaths of several family members wiped out her and Stella 's inheritance . It is also later revealed that , years earlier , her husband , Allan Grey , committed suicide after she caught him having sex with another man . She had a series of meaningless affairs to numb her grief , and was soon thrown out of her hometown of Laurel , Mississippi , as a `` woman of loose morals '' after sleeping with one of her high school English students . </P>
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Laurel , Mississippi
Laurel , Mississippi