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    accepts the reality that her childhood home is lost. After, there is a rapid shift in her acceptance of reality. When Stanley hits her, Stella is traumatized; “I want to go away, I want to go away!” (Scene III, ll. 7). Emotionally distressed she and Blanche run to the upstairs room while Stanley cools down. Disappointingly, only after Stanley calls her name, Stella returns embracing Stanley lovingly. This is the primary instance where Stella has chosen to refuse the truth that her husband is a…

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    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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    it as Stanely prepares to leave without another word. “Stanley! Where are you going,” she calls after him (1.6). His is answer is that he is going bowling; he did not even think to discuss these plans with her first. At first glance, this opening scene seems innocence and possibly even a little fun as the audience views some light-hearted interaction between a husband and wife. However, this scene actually shows some insight into how Stanley has little regard for his wife. First, he yells for…

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    Blanche Dubois enters the lives of Stanley and Stella Kowalski when she arrives at their apartment at Elysian Fields. The beautiful and cultured Blanche clashes with the primitive Stanley. However, unlike the cultured Blanche first seen, the real Blanche is penniless and has a history with many men. When Stanley reveals Blanche’s impure past to everybody, Blanche struggles to continue and ends up in a mental facility. The deterioration of Blanche’s character is a result of her attempts to…

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    Blanche Dubois vs. Stella Kowalski A Streetcar Named Desire is an old American play that was published in 1947. It was written by an intelligent American playwright named Tennessee Williams. He is a well-respected writer, who wrote this play by using lyrical language. He uses this technique to carefully structure his characters’ emotions and actions. Most of his characters are realistic because of their way of thinking, lifestyle, and values. Two main characters that play a major part in A…

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    Blanche went to visit her sister, Stella, and her husband Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans. There are several reason why Blanche went to visit Stella. One of the main reason was because the family property, Belle Reve, was lost. By going to New Orleans Blanche would stay with family and comfort herself because the family property that she was in charge of was lost. After arriving in New Orleans, Blanche was surprise on how different it was compared to Mississippi. Unlike Mississippi, people of…

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    Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, takes place in New Orleans around the nineteen-forties at the home of Stella Kowalski and her husband, Stanley Kowalski. Stella and Stanly live a very simple life in New Orleans. They have a very codependent and 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…

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    Blanche Dubois is the protagonist of the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” written by Tennessee Williams. Her character is portrayed as a middle aged woman who is supposed to be a going crazy because she drowns in her own thoughts. Blanche is able to keep her thoughts together, but “ critic Anca Vlasopolos interprets Blanche’s downfall as a demonstration of William’s sympathy for her circumstances and a condemnation of the society that destroys her” (Blanche Dubois An Antihero). Blanche herself…

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    New Orleans, Louisiana named Elysian Fields. The main characters are Blanche Dubois, a talkative and seemingly prim and proper lady; Stella Kowalski, the laid back and more casual younger sister of Blanche’s; and Stanley Kowalski, the masculine, hard drinking husband to Stella. The major conflict of the play is the conflict that grows between Blanche and Stanley throughout the play. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams gives examples…

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    A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, tells the story of Stella and Stanley Kowalski and the dramatic turmoil that overtakes their relationship upon the arrival of Stella’s sister Blanche DuBois. In the first half of the play, Williams introduces both the setting and the primary characters almost immediately using vivid imagery, appealing to both the visual and olfactory senses of his readers; “"You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river…

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