Blanche And Stanley Analysis

In Tennessee Williams’ play, A Streetcar Named Desire, the dueling personalities between Blanche and Stanley have either been conflicting or similar. Both characters have a mutual love, Stella, they have a very different idea of how Stella should live her life. These characters come from two totally different backgrounds which causes them to clash often. Blanche grew up very wealthy on an estate called Belle Reve. She grew up on a very lavish lifestyle and always got the best of the best. When she was sixteen she fell in love to a man named Allan who was a closeted homosexual and died. This changed Blanche’s lifestyle forever. Ever since the whole incident with Allan happened, Blanche became the type of woman who wanted men to chase her and

They only “tolerate’ each other because of the reason they fight, Stella. Stanley believes Blanche’s intentions are not good and he believes she sold Belle Reve to gain wealth for herself and does not intend to share the wealth evenly with her sister. He has no patience for Stella and what she has to offer and her distortions of the truth. Blanche sees her visit to Stella as to “save’ her sister from her “monstrous” husband and Stanley believes her visit is to manipulate Stella and lie. He is heartlessly cruel to her and it is shown often during conversations between him and his wife. The animosity towards each other is as if they have “bad blood” towards each other. They can’t stand what the other does. They get satisfaction out of “one upping” the other. Such as when Blanche will try and tell Stella how horrible he is while Stanley wants to destroy Blanche’s social pretensions. To sum, the hatred between the characters of Blanche and Stanley in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is due to their conflicting personalities and the way they see Stella’s life should be. Two opposites sometimes attract and in this case they certainly