Tennessee William's play, A Streetcar Name Desire has a lot of meaning to it and careful details to the story. The strict morale guidelines of the 1930s Production code made directors and producers omit certain behavior to please the census of the Breen Office. They had to be careful about the handling of certain aspects like explicit expressions of violence, sex or comparable subjects. The production code tried to enforce the message that the guilty should always be punished and the murder is always avenged. The code also banned illegal drugs, excessive violence, white slavery, profanity, nudity, miscegenation, suggestive dancing, and lustful kissing . Producers and directors had to be careful about the handling of certain aspects like explicit expressions of violence, sex or comparable subjects. However altering and following these guidelines changes the affect of Williams' purpose of his play.
In the original play Blanche explains to Mitch about the suicide of her husband, how she remembers entering a room and finding her husband in bed with another man, there the play briefly questions the beliefs of homosexuality. Later, Blanche has a flashback to her husband's suicide, which she reveals that she discovered her husband's homosexuality, "In the worst of all possible ways. By coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty-which wasn't empty but had two people in it...the boy I had married and an older man who had been his friend for years" (Williams 114). Confused by this in consequence of this discovery, Blanche later confronts her husband of her disapproval and tells him that she is disgusted by his behavior. Blanche's husband commits suicide soon after, “Afterwards we pretended that nothing had been discovered. Yes, the three of us drove out to Moon Lake Casino, very drunk and laughing all the way. We danced the Varsouviana! Suddenly in the middle of the dance the boy I had married broke away from me and ran out of the casino. A few moments later –...