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Tennessee Williams -Playwright 1948 - A Streetcar named Desire
"A Streetcar Named Desire" is a Play Written by Tennessee Williams in 1948 about conflicting individuals. Blanche DuBois, a Nymphomaniac distorted Southern Belle, who looks for either compensation or consolation; she needs a scapegoat to help put the blame on for her twisted sexuality. Stanley Kowalski, a 100% American man who’s tough and delicate at the same time and all he brings to the table are his "normal" brute ways and his unpleasant love. The obvious Feud between these damaged characters tend to open the more essential wrongdoings of Stella Kowalski, the spectators who watches her better half destroys her sister's life exposing all her secrets. As a result of analyzing …show more content…

Blanche DuBois is a fallen woman with many secrets in her life, Blanche had been married to a young man at a very early stage in her life. Surprisingly she enters a room to discover her young husband Named Allen had been sharing relations with a older man. They went out that night to a polka , In the middle of them dancing Blanche revealed to her young spouse that he sickened her. This ponder demonstration of savagery on Blanche's part made the young man commit suicide. Quickly after that epidemic occurred, Blanche endured a series of bad luck from several of deaths in her family and getting fired making her to come with a story about taking a “leave” of absence ‘’. To escape from this brutal reality of the void she created from her young husband's death Blanche takes part in drinking liquor and sexual activity to hide her problems. “Well, now you talk. Open your pretty mouth and talk while I look around for some liquor know you must have some liquor on the place! Where could it be, I wonder? Oh, I spy, I spy!’’ (Blanche Dubois-Tennessee Williams.). …show more content…

He is what you call "the gaudy seed-bearer," a man who takes pleasure in being man. With the presence of Blanche, Stanley feels an awkward risk to those things that are his which makes his man senses tingling, Blanche turns into a bacteria towards his lifestyle he feels that she is an infection to his marriage. It was a big fight between him and stella after the poker game He realizes the after with stella would have never happened if Blanche had not been around. He feels that it is her causing the tension between him and his better half. The next morning comes Stanley overhears a discussion about him being names like the survivor of the Stone Age, At that point he is reasonably irritated with Blanche.Stanley is finally fed up he feels that All through Blanche's stay at his home she has used the same mouth that she talks down on him with to drink his Alcohol Beverages and eat his food he came up with a master plan to get back at Blanche to hit her where it would hurt the most.Stanley digs up dirt on Blanche's past life , collects all the information he can to relay it back to Stella so he can show her how degenerate Blanche actually is, Stanley plans are to destroy Blanche since she has in his eyes tried to destroy his marriage. It all comes down to him buying her the bus ticket back to Laurel and reveals her past to

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