Analysis Of A Street Car Named Desire

A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is an iconic playwright throughout American Literature history. The play has many meanings to it, but the one meaning that stood out most and played an affect on the end of the play would be the treatment the two characters gave each other. The two characters are Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski. Stanley’s treatment of Blanche throughout the play leads to her steady decline into madness. Blanche in the play arrives at her sister’s house and her sister introduces her to Stanley. When they first meet Blanche was trying to be friendly and Stanley was looking more into Blanche and kept asking her questions. This did not affect Blanche at first because she just believed that maybe this could be Stanley’s personality. The text showed evidence of Stanley’s attitude about her being there at his house in many ways. Stanley says, “ are you going to be shacking up here?” and Blanche says “ I thought I would if it was not inconvenient for you all”, and Stanley just said “good” (102 Vol.E). Stanley did not seem like it was okay for her to be there by his tone. After he talked to her he starts screaming at Stella about supper. Stanley personality through reading the text shows how he is a selfish human being. He does not like Blanche being

When Blanche first meets Mitch she says that Stanley is “superior to the others” (scene 3). Stanley being superior over his friends shows the reader evidence of how Stanley has to be in control over everything. Blanche and Mitch meet and Stanley recognizes it so when Stella and Blanche first start talking he yells at them to be quite. Litcharts.com says the reason to this is because “Stanley is upset that Blanche is demonstrating power in his house”. That statement gives one, evidence that he has to rule over everything and everyone around him but Blanche is ruining this for