What Is The Upper Class In A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar named desire was written in 1947, a time period where the working class was rising, becoming more hardworking and working their way up from the bottom, the aristocracy, the upper class, were slowly but inevitably losing their higher status and were having to deal and live with people who were in a lower class than they were. The aristocratic societies were also shunned for being ignorant. Williams has introduced and portrayed the aristocratic women who are, Blanche and Stella in this play, to hold very distinct characteristics that truly encapsulates their society. Blanche and Stella are sisters who have grown up in an aristocratic background, however after some mishaps in the family, the younger of the two, Stella left their hometown of Belle Reve. The play battles the social indifferences between the roaring and ever hungry working class against the ignorant upper class.

The play focuses on the power struggle between the …show more content…
This can be seen in her collection of expensive items, “feathers and furs that she has come here to preen herself in… solid gold dress… genuine fur fox pieces”“. With such a lavish lifestyle and dreamy mindset, Blanche is unable to understand the decisions that Stella chooses to make in order to adapt to the New Orleans setting of life. This shows that she is nowhere close to being able to come to terms with what she will have face in the near future where the aristocratic class vicissitudes. This is seen in the play where Blanche is in absolute disbelief with the return of Stella to Stanley at the end of Scene 3 in the play, “She stops before the dark entrance of her sister’s flat. Then catches her breath as if struck”, she exemplifies her concerns and confusions that she faces with the situation by questioning Stella and asking her to move out with