She can also be very dangerous as her past with younger males displays that she dealt with the grief of her husband very badly and wanted to get revenge. She also was a massive threat for Stanley’s and Stella’s relationship as she would flirt with Stanly or tell Stella to leave him for the way he was treating her, although Stanley was abusive towards Stella, she chose to stay until the last scene where she decided that Stanley was guilty of all the accusations that Blanche had informed her of. William’s true intentions for this play was to have the audience look at Blanche but how she charmed males in without trying. His sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia which is where he drew more inspiration for Blanche and how the illness effected her mental state.
On the other hand Stanley was a completely different character, William’s intentions for him was to “express the ills of the world” which is why Stanley is a prime example of this. Stanley is an abusive animal but Stella is blind to this. We discover that Stanley beats Stella which was more acceptable in that time period as women were seen as objects and males were in higher archery. William’s wanted to make sure that women weren’t blind to the idea of psychical and verbal abuse within a stable