Blanche And Stanley Relationship Analysis

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As a result, Stanley and Blanche push the tension with each other to expose secrets and search for their love to satisfy their decisions about their relationships. When Blanche sees Stanley and Stella’s relationship, she looks to Stanley’s friends to find a connection and satisfy her search for love. She notices Mitch and looks for ways to be with him. “Is he married?” (Williams 1133) Blanche asks, because she wants to get to know him, hoping he would be a good fit for her relationship. Blanche uses sympathy to fall in love with Mitch in order to get know him, except, she looks for his love to replace her past. However, “Honey, would I be here if the man weren’t married,” (Williams 1141) Blanche explains how she looks for a man who could be …show more content…
Nonetheless, Blanche does not let Stanley ruin her relationship and continues to see Mitch. Thus, Stanley becomes angry with each other when he fails to break Blanche and Mitch apart. Stanley poses the image of wrath as the anger he has towards Blanche. Stanley cannot get over that Blanche is his reason for changing his life. She first takes Stella, and now his friendship with Mitch. As a result, Stanley searches for Blanche’s weakness, which is her obsession with romance. (Kerman 18) Therefore, Stanley prides himself as a man to show his dominance over Blanche to destroy her search for love and claim love as his own. (Kerman 18) Stanley destroys Blanche so she would leave and his life would be back to normal and find his love back. Yet Stanley is selfish because he only cares about himself and does not realize his obsession with love, nor think about …show more content…
(Berkman 34) She initially puts on an act to find acceptance and search for love. (Berkman 37) Thus, she interferes to prove to herself and Stanley that she needs to have love in her life, otherwise she feels lost. (Berkman 37) For that reason, Stanley and Blanche create tension with each other to satisfy their obsession with love. Both Blanche and Stanley distrust each other’s relationship to gain control of themselves. They want to have a relationship to find closure in their love life, except they destroy each other’s reputation. For example, Stanley exposes Blanches truth for her arrival and her obsession with love, that it affects her relationship with both Mitch and Stella. Stanley treats Blanche without acknowledging her feelings and explain how she has an obsession with relationships, especially with younger men. As a result, Stanley establishes Blanche as a woman of greed because she cares about her appearance and material things. Having material things establish Blanche as greedy because it separates her from others, but proves that everything should be about her. Yet, Stanley exposes the truth asking many questions to prove her arrival is only a

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