Women In Tennessee Williams 'A Streetcar Named Desire'

Williams play portrays the reality of American society during 1950s when women were forced to obey to harsh gender norms. Blanche desires a change and that is the reason for the struggle she goes on with Stanley. Women gained their value from the powerful relations with man. Even Blanche seeks for men's admiration, but not from someone like her sister's husband.
Williams was affected by the treatment of women in southern society. He designed the play to show how the social structure of south are different from American society in the protection for females. In Streetcar Stanley uses violence which make Blanche victim of masculine aggression. Bean believes that men and women functions as opposite "cultural stereotypes of gender behavior: active