Character Analysis: A Streetcar Named Desire

People often have a certain perspective on another individual based on a certain persona or act one puts on to have a reputation. In "A Streetcar Named Desire" two characters Blanch and Stanley both feel that they have a very specific image to up hold in order to be respected by the other characters in the book. people often have excperinces that shape there future weather it be for the better or worse it could even cause someone to creat an alterante image of themselves just to appeare like nothing is wrong.One person that Blanche puts an act or acts differently around is her sister Stella. Stella and Blanche have grown up together so they have obviously spent lots of time with each other; however, because of this, Stella also knows …show more content…
In "A Streetcar named desire" one of the charcters has this mantality. Stanley is a very small man and is possibly the smallest person in his a group of his friends; however, he does not allow his size to effect his aggresiveness towards others. Stanley wants to be thought of as domanint and thought of as the alpha male. Stanley use his tough guy image through the whole story. This is espeshily evedint through how he treats his friends. For example, in one part of the story Stanley gets a phone call from one of his buddy Mac and puts on a preformance to prove that he is the alpha Male. "No, I don 't wanta bowl at Riley 's. I had a little trouble with Riley last week." Stanley has just been told that the rest of his bowling buddies would like to bowl at Riley 's. Instead of compromising for the sake of the team he throws a fit and refuses to go. "I 'm the team-captain, ain 't I? All right, then, we 're not gonna bowl at Rileys". Stanley uses his power as team captian just to aggravite the rest of his teamates just to prove that he is the leader in all situations. Stanley is very aggrisive with his speach and deminer but he takes it a step further when he tries to influnce who his friend Mitch shouldn 't marry and even going out of his way to do so. " Things i already suspected. But now i got proof from the most reliable sources- which I have checked on!" This shows to the exctent of the trouble Stanly was whilling to go through just to prove to Mitch that Blanche isn 't a girl he should marry. Once Stenly had found his dirt on Blanche, he can 't wait to tell Mitch in the hopes of changing his intentions with Blanche. "Well, he 's not going to marry her. Maybe ge was, but he 's not going to jump the tank with a school of sharks now." This proves just how much power Stanley truly has over everyone he incounters,