Desire leads to Cemeteries which leads to Elysian Fields

In Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire the evidence of this despairing loneliness is as evident as it ever was in any of T.S. Elliot’s poetry, and even more visible then in the works of Mr. Hemingway. With Blanche’s arrival in the first act, Mr. Williams makes reference to and foreshadows the hell that these people live in as well as the torture that will come after.

Blanche [with faintly hysterical humor}:
They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!

Tennessee Williams is basically saying that by falling to desire one is lead to the cemeteries, or death, and from there they travel to the Elysian fields, which can be construed as one of two locations: The Hellenistic Greek heaven, or Limbo, from Dante’s Divine Comedy. As a learned man Williams could realistically be referencing either location, however the society the characters live in infers to us that Williams Elysian Fields are a bad place, connecting it more to Limbo, which is Dante’s first ring of Hell, a false heaven, disjointed from God. That describes Williams Elysian Fields perfectly: a Hell were the people are so wrapped up in there own problems, or reveling in there own lust that they don’t realize: they’re in Hell.