Marmoreal skin and the streetcar

marmoreal \mahr-MAWR-ee-uhl, -MOHR-\, adjective:

of or like marble: skin of marmoreal smoothness.

Today I had the absolute pleasure of reading the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.  I had to read it for a drama class I'm taking, and let me tell you: sexual innuendos GALORE.  No joke guys, if you want a good, sexy read, you will find it in this play, and you can play "Where's the Sexual Tension?" as if it were "Where's Waldo?"

The main character of the play is called Blanche DuBois, a beautiful woman who's something of a wilting flower with marmoreal skin and a high-and-mighty attitude.  The plot is set in New Orleans in the 1940's, after WWII; and Blanche, a high school English teacher, must take time off from her work for unknown reasons, and stay with her younger sister Stella and her brutish husband Stanley Kowalski.

Basically what happens from there is Stanley goes out of his way to annoy Blanche, who is in a fragile state 24/7.  Through a series of inquiries from Stan to the men in town who know where Blanche came from, we discover (spoiler alert) that Blanche was practically run out of town because of an affair she had with an underage student.  In the end she gets put into a mental institution.  But those are just main plot points, there's more to the story, soooo much more!  It's sexy!

If you aren't really one for reading plays though, it's a famous movie with Vivien Leigh and a very young, very HOT Marlon Brando.  Here's the trailer and a picture.  You're welcome.