Blanche In A Streetcar Named Desire

However, as Scene Ten begins, Stanley is on the verge of regaining his dominant stance. He has discovered details of Blanche's past that discredit her in Stella's eyes as well as putting an end to a potential marriage between Blanche and his friend. His victory over her influence is sealed when he gives her a bus ticket back to Mississippi and insists that she use it. He is also only hours away from becoming a father, a physical manifestation of his virility and manhood. His confidence in himself is palpable as the scene unfolds in the way he plays along with Blanche, pretending to believe her story about

Blanche displays inappropriate behavior. She gets kicked out of the high school for mixed up with a seventeen year old boy. “They kicked her out of the high school before the spring term ended and I hate to tell you the reason that step was taken! A seventeen years old boy she had gotten mixed up with(122)”. By Blanche's inappropriate behavior she had lost her job and respect, moreover, it leads her to become broke. The mayor of Laurel forced Blanche to leave the town because she pretend that she was rich, and dated multiple men in town. After they found out the truth they quit but Blanche hadn't stop dating different men.” She's practically told by the mayor to get out of the town” (121). By her inappropriate behavior, she had been kicked

Blanche tries to conceal the secrets of her past from her new found life in New Orleans; however it is only a matter of time before the truth comes out. Stanley is the one to reveal her true reason for coming to New Orleans: she was essentially kicked out of her town because there were only so many men. Her numerous sexual relations recounted by Stanley depict Blanche as a gold digger and the epitome of the party. Stanley crashes all of Blanche’s hopes to recreate a new life for Blanche. He forces Mitch, her almost lover, to leave Blanche and stoop her down to even more disparity in her

The reader may view Blanche as someone who tried to escape her sordid past in Laurel and wanted to start a new life with her sister, yet due to the continuous investigations from Stanley, was unable to do so. Stanley reveals Blanches’ lies and deceits, commenting on them as her ‘same old act, same old hooey!’ This tells the reader that his research of Blanches’ past is way of stopping her from finding a new life. Blanche attempts to redeem her life by finding love with Mitch, yet Stanley again reveals to Mitch that she was not ‘straight’, resulting in Mitch not wanting to be with her and also contributing to her fate. Stanley, after mercilessly divulging all her truths and bringing her to the edge of her mental capacity, rapes Blanche which brought about her final collapse. The reader may view Stella as someone at blame for her sisters’ fate, as though she shows some moral support of Blanches’ situation and listens to what she has to say, Stella continuously throughout the play neglects to notice Blanches slow mental deterioration and ignores Blanches’ outcries and incessant need for attention. Stella chooses Stanley over Blanche, despite her warnings about him being ‘volatile, violent and sub-human which represents not

It was not just her self that put her in the lime light of being a victim; it is also her new change of environment and people. Stanley is Stella's husband; he is described to be very masculine and aware of his sexual magnetism. “Strongly, compactly built”. He is mostly at ease with people however, if they lack loyalty and affection to him, he will bully them. Especially women, as he believes them just to be easy conflict. It is seen in scene 3 that Stanley has little respect for women. “I said to hush up!” This is addressed to his wife who is seen emotionless and impassive in this play. As for Blanche how is fussy and at edge, she would be very effected by the crude attitude that Stanley presents and so tries to hysterical take Stella away from her husband. Stanley does not forget of this act of interference and makes him all the more determined to be rid of Stella’s “charity case”. The real reason for Stanley’s bulling is that Blanche immediately received all Stella’s attention. “How about my supper huh? I’m not going to no Galatorires’ for supper” This made Stella dominant in power over Stanley and Blanche, something Stanley was not used to. “I put you a cold plate on ice”.

Stella's marriage to Stanley, on the other hand, seems to have given her the happiness and fulfillment, which Blanche has attempted to find in a guilt-ridden life of loneliness with promiscuity. As a result Blanche has become neurotic and alcoholic, slipping increasingly into insanity. Stella, meanwhile, appears to have been thriving in a profane, coarse, but wholly satisfying sexual relationship with Stanley. Thus, superficially, the main contrast between Stella and Blanche seems to be one between sickness and health, perversity and normality, particularly in the sexual relationship. Stella is thriving; Blanche is disintegrating. But a closer examination of these sisters begins to show more complex differences in their characters and situations. Blanche is disintegrating for reasons other than sexual perversity, and Stella is paying a rather steep price for her so-called "normal" life with Stanley.

He likes to possess and control everything around him, he almost ‘owns’ Stella, and he has changed from her days at Belle Reve, pulling her “down off them columns and how [she] loved it”. But the arrival of Blanche, and her aristocratic ways annoys Stanley, as Stella begins to revert to her old ways. Blanche encourages her to stand up to him, and continually stresses the difference in their levels, although Stanley is not ashamed that he “was common as dirt”. Therefore, the only way that he can overcome Blanche and restore his authority is to beat her and triumph over her physically, which he eventually does. Although ironically, it is the effect of Stanley and his actions on her mind that finally provokes her downfall.

A Street Car Named Desire is a play written by a Mississippi born writer called Tennessee Williams. A Street Car Named Desire shows a reversal of fortune with Blanche having a life full of fortune with a successful business and a happy marriage however it is all turned upside when all this fortune is removed out of her life resulting in her seeking refuge with a lower class family her sister got married into... this fits in with Aristotle’s theory of tragedy because there is a reversal of fortune, bringing out feelings of fright and sympathy to the audience. Blanche might have been a character created by Williams using inspiration of his own life,

creates a dilemma for Blanche; she has never been rejected before, and I think this creates sexual tension between Stella and Stanley. It creates an atmosphere between them which comes to its climax towards the end of the play (scene ten), where Stanley says “we’ve had this date with each other from the beginning”.

Desire is prominent in Stella and Stanley’s relationship; Stella is drawn to Stanley because he has a strong male sexuality and he is drawn to her because of her traditional feminine sexuality. Stanley abuses Stella, and when Blanche finds out she is perplexed. Stella explains that, “there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of make everything else seem—unimportant.”(1.4). Stella and Stanley stay together because they use sex to smooth out their disputes. Stanley views sex as an important aspect in marriage (Panda ). He views women as sexual objects; Williams gives an insight on Stanley, he says, “[Stanley] sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing through his mind”(1.1). Stanley ends up raping Blanche at the end of the play; thus causing Blanche to lose her sanity. Although Blanche’s husband is only mentioned a few times in the play, the audience is able to see that his own sexual desire leads to his

If Stella stucked with her, she would be able to fully understand what her sister is going threw and would have a resolution of her problems. The thing that they might not know about Blanche is that the problem of the story is Stanley; is he “a brutal monster or a pragmatic survivor?” (holland P.12). Nobody knows, but what we do know is that Stanley likes to control everything, and for sure he wants to stay with Stella. Let’s take for example the first confrontation between Stanley and Blanche in the beginning of Scene 2; Stanley manly authority is closely established by the means of “lordly composure”(Holland P.45) which he receives Stella’s kiss and Stella’s request for money. Stanley hates Blanche for coming into his “territory” (Holland P.56) that made his vision distorted by raging jealousy that he confuses Blanche’s cheap jewellery for ropes of

Blanche opens up to Mitch about how she was widowed after her husband, Allen, killed himself after she found out he was a homosexual and said she was disgusted by him. Stanley tells Blanche that prior to coming to New Orleans, Blanche was kicked out of Laurel for her

Blanche heads to visit Stella and Stanley in an effort to start a new, and cleanse herself of the past; when in fact what she finds is much worse than the ghosts of her past. In the first scenes, Blanche is very unlikable and is portrayed as a jealous sister, who can’t be happy for anyone. It is hard to feel sympathetic to Blanche; yet easy to feel sympathetic for everyone but her, due to her treatment

There are many external events alluded to through the text. It is hinted that the start of Blanche’s insanity was when she found out that her husband was a homosexual. Stella leaves Belle Reve, and Blanche is stuck to take care of their dying kin, while losing their family home. Before Blanche arrives in New Orleans, she is fired from her teaching job because the entire town knows of her as a whore. This is also what ruins her in New Orleans because the manager at Stanley’s job has passed through the hotel she used to live in. The internal events of the play begin with Blanches arrival. Immediately, Stanley assumes that Blanche sold Belle Reve for money, and believes that a share of it belongs to him. In an argument Stanley hits Stella, and Blanche uses it as an excuse to lure Stella away. Mitch and Blanche begin dating, and decide that they will wed. When Stanley finds this out he informs Mitch as a friend of Blanche’s past, and breaks up the engagement. Stella goes to the hospital to have her baby, and while she is there Stanley and Blanche have a fight, which ends with sexual relations. After Stella returns from the hospital, a nurse and a doctor come to take Blanche away. Mitch begins to cry, showing that he really did love her.

Before one can understand Blanche's character, one must understand the reason why she moved to New Orleans and joined her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley. By analyzing the symbolism in the first scene, one