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    girl named Blanche Dubois. Blanche goes to New Orleans to visit her pregnant sister, Stella. Another character who is also there is Stella’s husband, Stanley. Blanche was struggling with her life so she decided to visit her sister until get becomes better. Blanche explains to Stella that the bank has taken their family’s plantation away. Stanley thinks something is fishy about what Blanche is telling Stella. He thinks she sold the land and took the money. Since Stanley thinks Blanche is lying he…

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    unhealthy marriage. Blanche Dubois arrives at her sister Stella 's apartment and comes off as being slightly judgmental at first. Stanley takes an instant dislike to Blanche and feels threatened by her because she really wrecks their marriage and the relationship he has with his wife. We then discover that Blanche and Stella 's family estate has been ruined. Blanche is penniless and an alcoholic. During a poker game at the Kowalski 's ', Stanley goes into a rage at Blanche…

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    Williams, the flowers help Blanche mask her aging, loss of purity, and beauty. In A Streetcar Named Desire, the flowers represent how Blanche wants to hold onto her youth. Throughout the play, Blanche tries to keep her youth through the use of flower print dresses. They represent being young and beautiful. Some words associated with flowers are gorgeous, lovely and dainty. These show Blanche’s mentality. She wears flower patterned dresses to alter the way people see her. Blanche does this to…

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    “Desire”, as something more than just an undefined force because what led Blanche to her overall destruction is her sexual desire and passion. "Cemeteries", however, is connected to “Desire” because it reinforces the reminder that a life driven by desire only ends in one fatal way. A). In Scene 4 Blanche uses the image of “that rattle-trap street-car” to explain her sexual desire to her sister, Stella. Williams uses Blanche to explain that if one is driven by desire, it is inevitable that…

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    often have excperinces that shape there future weather it be for the better or worse it could even cause someone to creat an alterante image of themselves just to appeare like nothing is wrong.One person that Blanche puts an act or acts differently around is her sister Stella. Stella and Blanche have grown up together so they have obviously spent lots of time with each other; however, because of this, Stella also knows…

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    demonstrates real life conflicts and relationships through two sisters, a new marriage, and different friendships. Stella and Blanche are sisters from Bella Reve in Mississippi. Stella moved away to New Orleans and got married to Stanley, Blanche came up to visit her sister because she lost everything they had at Belle Reve, her job, her house, and she was kicked out of the town. Blanche did not tell Stella and Stanley about these things she just told them Belle Reve was lost. Stanley knew…

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    The three main characters, Stanley Kowalski, Blanche Dubois, and Stella Kowalski, have diverse methods for managing the conflicts in their brutal surroundings in which they live in, as they all face distinctive crisis. This…

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    story of a woman coming to live with her sister and her husband. Within the story, the past lurks throughout the story, haunting the character’s present. Blanche is a mentally unstable woman who was forced to flee her home when all her relatives passed away. Stella reluctantly allows Blanche to live with them, and during the course of her stay, Blanche brings the past into their home. Although Stella tries to be the neutral ground between Stanley and Blanche’s bickering, her past always finds a…

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    Furthermore, the sisters of A Streetcar Named Desire portray the actuality between siblings offset. When Blanche arrives to visit her sister Stella and her husband Stanley for the first time, Blanche acts like any sister would and wonder about her sister’s life with the man she knows nothing about. Blanche becomes pitiful as she wonders whether Stanley will accept her as she questions their relationship. “Blanche: Will Stanley…

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    A Streetcar Named Desire is an allusion to the death of the “Old South.” Blanche DuBois, a woman raised on a southern plantation, creates this allusion. Blanche is the epitome of the Old South by being a school teacher, wanting to depend on a man, and trying to stay prim and proper all of the time. Her job as a school teacher puts her in the position of working with children, as seen in the Old South. She wants to depend on a man, like Mitch, because she believes he will take care of her.…

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