Review of Scene 10 in A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Review of Scene 10 in A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In this essay I am going to be explaining why and what makes this

scene the most powerful scene in the play, I will also be giving an

overlook on the characters, actions and the stage directions. My essay

will include quotes from the play and how an audience would react and

feel to the actions given by each of the characters.

After reading the book I found scene 10 the most dramatic scene in the

play because this is the scene where Blanche gets raped by her sisters

husband Stanley, he comes on to her and frightens the life out of her

by using threatening lines such as 'Tiger - tiger! Drop the

bottle-top! Drop it! We've had this date from the beginning!' and that

is when he finally rapes her, that is what finally leads to Stanley

and Stella finally putting her in an institution.

Leading up to this scene Blanche has been through a lot starting from

the beginning blanche got married to a young man who she liked to call

the boy, she found him in bed with another man, the boy felt so

ashamed he couldn't live with the guilt and he killed himself after

she became a sort of slut hanging around a hotel waiting for men to

pick her up, she stayed with these men for a while and they gave her a

lot of expensive gifts and when she got bored she left them and moved

on to the next. She also got fired from her school teaching job as an

English teacher because of a fling with a student. After all this she

moved in temporarily with Stella and Stanley, Stanley always accused

blanche of trying to fraud him for all of his money and then she met

Mitch a fairly nice man, Blanche and Mitch got together and in the end

it ended with Mitch raping blanche, I would think the audience would

disgusted with these actions of Mitch but in all fairness Blanche had