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A Winless Battle

This disturbs the peace within the hotel and when the hotel and the town of Laurel figure out what she is doing in the hotel, they tell her to leave the hotel and also the town because they dont want anyone like her to be there. No she has nowhere to live and she is desperate. So she decides to go and stay with her sister, Stella for a little while. Blanches visit comes as a total surprise to Stella and her husband, Stanley. From the very beginning, Stanley and Blanche do not get along very well. Stanley feels that Blanche is invading their privacy and he wants her gone. Blanche tries her best to be liked by Stanley and the rest of the occupants of Elysian Fields, but sometimes she just causes too much trouble for them. In the end, Stella and Stanley arrange for Blanche to be sent to a mental hospital because they want her to be gone. So, for the rest of her life, she will be living in the mental hospital. Therefore, you can see how Blanche is not a victor at all throughout this play, but in every aspect she is the victim.In this play, Stanley is the husband of Stella. He is a big and tough guy. He is the head of the house and he seems to have everything under control. However, when you really dig into his character you kind find out that he has a lot of faults about him. Stanley has an aura to him that shows people that he is totally under control and that nothing about him is at fault. On the outside, he may seem like he is the only ultimate victor in this play, but in actuality, he is a victim just like everyone else. For one, he has lost the trust of his wife. Blanche told her that while she was in the hospital giving birth to their child, Stanley raped Blanche. Stella chooses to deny to Blanche, but deep down inside, she knows that Stanley was capable of doing it and she knows that more than likely, he did do it to her. However, she chooses to just ignore it, because if she admits to herself and to everyone else, ...

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