Blanche arrives in New Orleans after having lost her family's tobacco plantation, with nothing but a trunk of clothes and her sexual desire to call her own. When first arriving in New Orleans, her sister's husband Stanley attempts to treat Blanche as any gentleman would, however Blanche refuses to ablige by his rules, and as the plot of the play continues Stanley starts to take any power that Blanche has left, until she is empty of any and has become completely marginalized. Stanley contributes to the marginalization of women in the play in many ways. In terms of the realms that both caracters are in, Blanche seems to live constantly in a fantasy world and Stanley is firmly stuck in reality. For this reason he always has the upperhand over
