Essay Compare And Contrast Stanley And Blanche Dubois

In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski and Blanche Dubois are characters who are opposites from their personalities to their ideals but still share traits that make them similar. When Stella Kowalski introduced Stanley and Blanche, they automatically became at odds with each other. They each represent opposing symbols and did not get along because of this. Tennessee Williams shows in A Streetcar Named Desire that opposites can still be similar in some ways by how Stanley and Blanche are both carnal, drink a lot, and have a temperamental personality.
Both Stanley and Blanche have very carnal personalities, and they need love to satisfy their desires for not only physical sex, but also stability and security in a relationship. Stanley is openly sexual with his wife, Stella and does not try to hide it. On page 50, after Stanley whacks his hand on Stella’s thigh in front of his poker friends, Stella said, “That’s not fun, Stanley. It makes me so mad when he does that in front of people.” Blanche’s carnal personality is obvious in the incident of the

Ever since the beginning of the book, Blanche would talk about Shep Huntleigh, an imaginary man that she made into her escape from reality. On page 85, Stella says, “What are you laughing at, honey?” Blanche then replies with, “Myself, myself, for being such a liar! I’m writing a letter to Shep.” Stanley lets his carnal, “animal” side out, and this can be seen when he takes advantage of Blanche. On page 161, Stanley said, “Come to think of it--maybe you wouldn’t be bad to--interfere with...” Another example of both of their tempers is in scene two, where Blanche and Stanley get into a heated discussion about the Belle Reve. Stanley oversteps his boundaries by throwing her possessions around, and Blanches losses her head and breaks down when he touched her love