Blanche

do something which Blanche, who is threatening his role and interfering with his and Stella’s sex-based marriage. “God, honey, it’s gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night they way that we used to and get the colored lights going with nobody’s sister behind the curtain to hear us” (133). Stanley wants Blanche out because she is interfering with their sex-based marriage, and without sex, their marriage will suffer. Stanley accomplishes this by raping and breaking Blanche to the point…

middle-aged woman by the name of Blanche, played by Vivien Leigh in the film, who has lost all of her family’s fortune and moves in with her sister Stella, played by Kim Hunter. Stella’s husband, Stanley, played by Marlon Brando, is not too fond of Blanche and throughout the plot, he and Blanche argue constantly. The main difference in the movie when contrasting with the play was in regards to Blanche and Stanley’s relationship being portrayed differently in the film. Blanche and Stanley…

sisters, Blanche and Stella, and Stella’s husband, Stanley. The book opens with Blanche coming to live with Stella and dragging all her problems in with her. The time period it was written and set in, 1940’s to 1950’s, is reflected in some of the major issues it tackles like class. Blanche and Stella come from what was a well-off family while Stanley was the polar opposite. By the beginning of the book, Stella has given up her high class lifestyle to become working class with Stanley while…

As the central character in A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois incorporates many aspects of the themes in the play. It is her arrival that sparks the series of events that alter the lives of the other primary characters. Blanche’s journey towards a breakdown that results in her succumbing to madness starts long before she arrives in the ironically named Elysian Fields. Upon her arrival, we are learn that she is from a world unlike the one she encounters on leaving the streetcar and…

vs. Reality along with developing the main character Blanche. Blanche escapes reality by never showing her true self in the light. Blanche is not just hiding from the people and society, but from her own self. She covers up the truth with lies and exaggerations because she does not want to face reality. Blanche plays dress up similar to what little girls do. It seems as though she is convincing herself that she is younger than the age Blanche actually is. “Now she is placing the rhinestone…

why it is happening and how it is happening. In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche visits her sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley, out in New Orleans to escape from her life in Mississippi. During her stay we find that Stella and Stanley do not have a very healthy relationship. We also find that Blanche is not well and she had not made the best of choices in her past. This story focuses on the characters Stella and Blanche, sisters who grew up on the Belle Reve estate in Mississippi, Stanley,…

Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire shows the life of Blanche Dubois while she has a long-term stay with her sister and her brother-in-law. The play was put on stage during the late 1940’s and set in the suburban part of New Orleans, Louisiana. During this time many were rejoicing over the end of the Great Depression and wasting their new wealth on worthless goods. Only 2 years after the end of World War II and life slowly but surely transitioned back into the social norms. Men were…

particular scene that stood out. This is the part when Stanley questions Blanche about losing Belle Reve and if there were papers to prove it. Stella asked Stanley not to question her sister because she is under a lot of stress. This part of the play is important because the main characters’ personality and relationships toward each other start to stand out. Stanley’s aggressive nature starts to develop as starts to get angry at how Blanche is trying not to talk about the loss Belle Reve. He…

develop the character of Blanche. The way Blanche reacts to light can be seen as her attempt to hide her true character, hide her vanishing youth and beauty, and attempt to avoid reality. Blanche hides in the darkness, and avoids the light, as a way to escape reality. This idea is represented when Mitch attempts to turn on the light, "I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic...-Don't turn the light on!" (Williams page 117) This example from the text demonstrates Blanches attempt to…

abusive tendencies and seek a new life with her sister, Blanche. Blanche enjoys taking baths as often as she can in order to wash away her past and forget about it. In scene seven, Stanley reveals that Blanche has a long history of male lovers after the death of her husband. While Stanley is explaining…