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A Streetcar Narmed Desire

A Streetcar Narmed Desire Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a play wrought with intertwining conflicts between characters. A drama written in eleven scenes, the play takes place in New Orleans over a nine-month period. The atmosphere is noisy, with pianos playing in the distance from bars in town. It is a crowded area of the city, causing close relations with neighbors, and the whole town knowing your business. Their section of the split house consists of two rooms, a bathroom, and a porch. This small house is not fit for three people. The main characters of the story are Stella and Stanley Kowalski, the home owners, Blanche DuBois, Stella’s sister, Harold Mitchell (Mitch), Stanley’s friend, and Eunice and Steve Hubbell, the couple that lives upstairs. Blanche is the protagonist in the story because all of the conflicts involve her. She struggles with Stanley’s ideals and with shielding her past. The essential conflict of the story is between Blanche, and her brother in-law Stanley. Stanley investigates Blanche’s life to find the truth of her promiscuity, ruining her relationships with Stella, and her possible future husband Mitch, which successfully obtain his goal of getting Blanche out of his house. Blanche attempts to convince Stella that she should leave Stanley because she witnessed a fight between the two. Despite these instances, there is an essence of sexual tension between the two, leading to a suspected rape scene in which one of their arguments ends with Stanley leading Blanche to the bed. Branching from that, Stella has an inner conflict because she does not know whether to side with her husband or her sister in each situation. Blanche and Mitch have a conflict because their original plans of getting married are destroyed when Stanley reveals her past. 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. Reversals are common in this play. Mitch goes from wanting to marry Blanche, to calling the wedding off. Stanley goes from hating Blanche to fooling around with her, which could be interpreted as an act of violence or fulfillment of a hidden desire. Stella engages in a reversal from trusting her sister to realizing that she has lost it and turning her over to doctors. I believe that this play is told through the authors/the reader’s point of view. There is not one character that has inner monologues or is narrating. Each scene is open for interpretation. I think that the play is about desire between people and the different ways they can express it, which the title, A Streetcar Named Desire, informs us. Blanche came to town on a streetcar because she was ostracized in her old home as a result of her desires. Blanche had a desire for sex in general to cope with her divorce and the loss of her family; she just needed to feel loved. Stanley expressed his hidden desire for Blanche by being cruel to her through the whole story, and then having sex with her. Mitch showed his desire for Blanche by asking her to marry him. Stella had a desire for Stanley’s love and for Blanche’s well being. The play is a display of the drama involved in families, and it shows that sometimes people have to make decisions and choose one relationship over another. In Stella’s case, she chose her relationship with Stanley over her sister. Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a play wrought with intertwining conflicts between characters. A drama written in eleven scenes, the play takes place in New Orleans over a nine-month period. The atmosphere is noisy, with pianos playing in the distance from bars in town. It is a crowded area of the city, causing close relations with neighbors, and the whole town knowing your business. Their section of the split house consists of two rooms, a bathroom, and a porch. This small house is not fit for three people. The main characters of the story are Stella and Stanley Kowalski, the home owners, Blanche DuBois, Stella’s sister, Harold Mitchell (Mitch), Stanley’s friend, and Eunice and Steve Hubbell, the couple that lives upstairs. Blanche is the protagonist in the story because all of the conflicts involve her. She struggles with Stanley’s ideals and with shielding her past. The essential conflict of the story is between Blanche, and her brother in-law Stanley. Stanley investigates Blanche’s life to find the truth of her promiscuity, ruining her relationships with Stella, and her possible future husband Mitch, which successfully obtain his goal of getting Blanche out of his house. Blanche attempts to convince Stella that she should leave Stanley because she witnessed a fight between the two. Despite these instances, there is an essence of sexual tension between the two, leading to a suspected rape scene in which one of their arguments ends with Stanley leading Blanche to the bed. Branching from that, Stella has an inner conflict because she does not know whether to side with her husband or her sister in each situation. Blanche and Mitch have a conflict because their original plans of getting married are destroyed when Stanley reveals her past. 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. Reversals are common in this play. Mitch goes from wanting to marry Blanche, to calling the wedding off. Stanley goes from hating Blanche to fooling around with her, which could be interpreted as an act of violence or fulfillment of a hidden desire. Stella engages in a reversal from trusting her sister to realizing that she has lost it and turning her over to doctors. I believe that this play is told through the authors/the reader’s point of view. There is not one character that has inner monologues or is narrating. Each scene is open for interpretation. I think that the play is about desire between people and the different ways they can express it, which the title, A Streetcar Named Desire, informs us. Blanche came to town on a streetcar because she was ostracized in her old home as a result of her desires. Blanche had a desire for sex in general to cope with her divorce and the loss of her family; she just needed to feel loved. Stanley expressed his hidden desire for Blanche by being cruel to her through the whole story, and then having sex with her. Mitch showed his desire for Blanche by asking her to marry him. Stella had a desire for Stanley’s love and for Blanche’s well being. The play is a display of the drama involved in families, and it shows that sometimes people have to make decisions and choose one relationship over another. In Stella’s case, she chose her relationship with Stanley over her sister. Bibliography:

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