Stella Kowalski

A Streetcar Named Desire and The House of Bernarda Alba, gender roles are discussed often. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche, Stella, and Stanley display the exaggeration of gender roles in order to criticize them. Blanche’s character is so over the top that her display of gender roles makes the audience question the necessity of the gender roles in place. Stella and Stanley are near perfect models of gender norms and the extreme nature of their problems displays clear reasons for why the…

This is displayed to full effect when Stella attempts to question Blanche on the subject of the loss of Belle Reve. She reminds her that "I took the blows to my face and body," suggesting she endured greater pain than Stella did and further tells her "you didn't dream, but I saw," clearly implying that her suffering has been beyond anything Stella can imagine. While we are told in scene three that "all but Stella and I [Blanche]" are now dead in the DuBois family, and thus…

the need to always have on expensive perfume and fur sweaters. Her biggest fear is to live somewhere like Stella is living, which is why she wants to marry a wealthy man. Blanche is very prejudice about those who are not as rich as she is or used to be. She pretends that she is still rich, and the fact that she in not scares her. The way she deceives the ones who love her the most, like Stella, shows that she is heartless. Blanche does not want to except her kismet, which is probably back to…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is a play about a former high school teacher, Blanche Dubois, who moved in with her sister and husband, Stella and Stanley. Blanche Dubois has been through many difficulties in order to fulfill the emptiness that is within her. Her young husband, Allen Gray committed suicide, she lost Belle Reve, and she lost her stature in Laurel. The driving force behind these actions were the empowerment of her desires. Williams uses allusions to develop the…

younger sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley. Her character seems emotionally lost throughout the whole play. She is unable to escape her past and is constantly fighting with herself on what is reality and the truth. Despite her previous indiscretions, Blanche pretends to be a woman who has never known indignity. Her trying to conceal her past eventually causes her additional mental complications and eventually lead her to have a nervous breakdown. After moving in with Stella and her…

Gender Roles in a Streetcar Named Desire Tennesssee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche Dubois as she arrives in New Orleans to visit her sister. Throughout the play, we see her sanity diminish until her departure. In this play, the theme of gender roles is explored through the representation of the male and female characters and through the symbol of the poker night. Williams shows the theme of gender roles through the characters and how they react to the different…

Blanche uses depression from her past life to make others feel sympathy for her. After Blanche reunites with Stella, they begin to talk and catch up with each other. Blanche tries right away to make Stella feel bad for her by saying, "You're all I've got in the world, and you're not glad to see me." (page 1543). By stating this, Blanche is trying to make Stella feel bad because Stella left her in Belle Reve after their parents had died. Blanche continues to pull sorrows while talking to Stanley…

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 something was…

==Mistakes== *In one scene, [[Bloom]]'s shoes are blue instead of light purple and Tecna's shoes are blue instead of purple. *In one scene, Bloom's wings are green instead of light pink and [[Stella]]'s wings are purple instead of pink. *In one scene, [[Tecna]]'s wings have the same design as [[Musa]]'s and Stella's wings are purple instead of pink. *In one scene, Bloom's shoes are blue instead of light purple and Stella's wings are purple instead…

The play A Streetcar Named Desire explores brutality vs. tenderness displayed through the personalities of Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. Marlon Brando's charismatic portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire undermines the validity of Blanche's struggle. The contrast between Vivien Leigh's Blanche and Brando's Stanley emphasizes the most negative aspects of Blanche's character while supporting and validating the most positive of Stanley's,…