Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard focus on the suffering of certain sensitive individuals in a society in transition. Both these plays have strong resemblance as both of them portray the fading aristocracy's last struggle for existence against a dominating materialistic civilization. The protagonists are lost in a particular point of time where they are unable to give up their traditional way of life in order to adjust with prevalent social forces. This leads to some psychological and emotional problems in the life of these characters