A Streetcar Named Desire Cover Analysis

When we began reading A Streetcar Named Desire I had no idea what to expect. I thought it’d be something about a man who is with multiple women to fill a void (judging from the cover art. That means that I… judged a book by its cover). Now that I think about the cover, it all makes sense. Stella and Blanche were the women that the stick figure in the middle, Stanley, was holding. When we were reading more about Blanche’s backstory was when the play got extremely juicy, at least for me. Unfortunately, that was the only day people were missing from our group, Valeria and Edaly. It's almost impossible to give people a recap of what happened with the same level of impact the play gives you. I was honestly shocked when Blanche revealed that her husband was with another man and later shot himself, which is why she went with random guys in a hotel. I never saw that coming. Well, she did mention that her husband died, but you'd never expect it to have been that way. At that point, I didn't want to put the play

I didn't know she'd be one of the main characters. After learning that she was a middle aged woman, I tried giving her this one voice, but it sounded nothing like Blanche would sound like. It was high pitched and difficult to speak loudly (unfortunately, I had to use a different voice in the presentation for volume and comprehension concerns), but I kept that voice. It gave her this charm that made you forget how unpleasant she can be sometimes. She ended up becoming my favorite character, but that made the ending even worse. My least favorite characters were Stanley and Eunice, Stanley because he hits her pregnant wife and raped her sister, and Eunice because she didn't know what she was talking about. Stella was in the middle for me, because she was the victim sometimes, but she didn't stand up for herself and also didn't make up her mind when she sent Blanche to the mental