A play’s setting allows the author to bring out many issues facing society, especially related to the social stratification decided by people’s lifestyles. In the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is a school teacher who moves in with her sister and husband in New Orleans. It is clear that Blanche has fallen through hard times, but she cannot leave her social status attitude when she moves to this working class neighborhood. Her solution is to develop a drinking habit while rooting for her sister to leave Stanley and his meager financial situation. In the end, Blanche goes to an insane asylum with dreams of marrying a millionaire. Willy Loman is a salesman from Brooklyn in the play Death of A Salesman and he dreams of a better
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Stanley is one such person ready to prove his manhood at home as he slaps Stella some days, then rapes Blanche before sending her to the asylum. “H’lo. Where is the little woman?” Stanley crude mannerism allows him to use these words to summon his wife when he first meets Blanche in their home (William 20). As true Americans, the middle class men and women believed in their strong work ethics system and their ambition to succeed in their endeavors. Like Stanley, Mitch and their friends these men valued the work made possible by their own hands (McComb 2). A blue-collar job was a cool way of earning one’s living, especially in a place called Elysian Fields where they can commemorate their lives and accomplishment after the war. Blanche and Stanley do not get along because their sense of values and honor, which shows how the aristocrats and working man clashed. At the same time, Blanche cannot understand how her aristocratic sister can marry below her station even though Stella loves this life with Stanley and its financial …show more content…
Her inability to work forces her into financial ruin as the mortgage for her family mansion makes her lose her inheritance and she uses her femininity and sexuality to earn a living. She then looks for a fresh start as a high school English teacher, but ruins that when she began an affair with her seventeen year old student. Blanche flees to New Orleans, where she spends her time belittling Stanley and his finances. Blanche explains her lifestyle to Stanley saying “Yes-clothes are my passion” (William 38). Willy wants a better lifestyle as he compares himself with his neighbor Charley, who is a successful businessman. He becomes insulted when Charley offers him a job when he seems to struggle with his salesman profession. The need to gain easy success and wealth is his ticket to the American Dream. He requires his sons to achieve the same in his stead and they too like his job disappoint him. Also, his brother Ben is his role model for the success story he wishes existed in his life. In Willy’s daydreaming he says “when he walks into a business office his name will sound out like a bell and all doors will open for him!” (Miller
Stanley is one such person ready to prove his manhood at home as he slaps Stella some days, then rapes Blanche before sending her to the asylum. “H’lo. Where is the little woman?” Stanley crude mannerism allows him to use these words to summon his wife when he first meets Blanche in their home (William 20). As true Americans, the middle class men and women believed in their strong work ethics system and their ambition to succeed in their endeavors. Like Stanley, Mitch and their friends these men valued the work made possible by their own hands (McComb 2). A blue-collar job was a cool way of earning one’s living, especially in a place called Elysian Fields where they can commemorate their lives and accomplishment after the war. Blanche and Stanley do not get along because their sense of values and honor, which shows how the aristocrats and working man clashed. At the same time, Blanche cannot understand how her aristocratic sister can marry below her station even though Stella loves this life with Stanley and its financial …show more content…
Her inability to work forces her into financial ruin as the mortgage for her family mansion makes her lose her inheritance and she uses her femininity and sexuality to earn a living. She then looks for a fresh start as a high school English teacher, but ruins that when she began an affair with her seventeen year old student. Blanche flees to New Orleans, where she spends her time belittling Stanley and his finances. Blanche explains her lifestyle to Stanley saying “Yes-clothes are my passion” (William 38). Willy wants a better lifestyle as he compares himself with his neighbor Charley, who is a successful businessman. He becomes insulted when Charley offers him a job when he seems to struggle with his salesman profession. The need to gain easy success and wealth is his ticket to the American Dream. He requires his sons to achieve the same in his stead and they too like his job disappoint him. Also, his brother Ben is his role model for the success story he wishes existed in his life. In Willy’s daydreaming he says “when he walks into a business office his name will sound out like a bell and all doors will open for him!” (Miller