Nathan's Character In 'A Streetcar Named Desire'

One of the moments that caught my attention was when Nathan called Joey. The objective of this scene was that Nathan wanted Joey to allow him to use his place to hold his illegal crap game, so that he will not be caught by the police. Nathan was trying to convince, which was the action/tactic of this scene, by telling Joey that he betted Sky a thousand dollars that he cannot get the doll, Sarah, to go to Havana with him. Nathan was extremely confident that Sky had no chance of winning, since Sarah was not the kind of girl that would go to Havana or anywhere else. The obstacles was that in order to rent the place possessed by Joey, he needed to pay him one thousand dollars. Although, he was confident that he would win the bet, the moment he