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The first scene really evaluates the key characters in the stories and shows how they are, by using them in situations. It demonstrates the characters’ personalities with key interactions of the characters amongst themselves. It really opens up by showing how passive and non-aggressive Stella is about her surroundings and how she deals with everyday life. It shows how she has almost no will in dealing with confrontations and arguments. It gives me reasons to believe that she is the victim of everything that has transpired. She is giving me the impression that she is naïve, submissive, and sort of gullible. She is soon mentally and emotionally scarred by the …show more content…
He is a self-appointed boss of everyone he knows. From his friends to his family, Stanley barks orders to make sure that everything goes as he wants. Even at his poker night, he tells his friend when they can leave or not. So, when Blanche starts making changes around “his” house, he shows a strong hatred to her and how his wife treats her. When he realizes that whatever Blanche wants she gets, he starts to unravel her past and show everyone for whom she is, a selfish, demanding person. Sound …show more content…
VII The name A Streetcar Named Desire comes from the actual streetcar that Blanche has to take for her new life. In a sense, it is the story’s plot. In the story, Blanche is perusing desire with a rich man to live a life of desire. Ironically enough, everything is completely the opposite. She is tormented and emotionally and mentally torn to pieces. Everything that transpires is completely ruined. Her urge for happiness and desire was inevitably her undoing. She ends up living her life a frail and confused patient.
A certain familiarity can be found between the relationships of others that are closer to you than you think.
VIII
Stella has a fight, mid-way into the story, with Stanley and even though it ends forgiveness, it really shows how unstable that the relationship is. What is funny about Stanley’s anger and Stella’s reactions is the fact that they are mirrored by their neighbors. Stanley struck Stella and Stella fled to safety. Steve struck Eunice, and she escaped. In the end of both of the fights, the women also forgave their husbands.
The climax of the story is more twisted and cruel than even I would have deduced.