Domestic Violence In A Streetcar Named Desire

Wicker Park once said, “Love makes you do crazy things, insane things. Things in a million years you’d never see yourself do.” Sometimes, when someone is deeply in love with their significant other, they will do anything within their power to stay with them, even if it means hurting themselves. This can be seen in Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire through Stanley and Stella’s relationship. Stanley constantly abuses Stella even while carrying his child but Stella refuses to leave Stanley because of how much she loves him. Williams's presentation of marital domestic violence and Stockholm syndrome conveys the message that although women were treated poorly during this time, many never left or always came back to their husbands. This

When Stella returns home, the two sisters fondly greet each other, but there is a sense of unease between the two. After a while, Stanley returns home. He finally meets Blanche and the two seem to have an amicable conversation until Blanche’s past is brought up. This causes tension between the two. Even though she wasn't on the best terms with Stanley, Blanche began to make herself at home. These tensions carry on into the next scene of the play when the two sisters return home while Stanley is hosting a poker party. He tells the two to visit Eunice, the landlord, until the poker game was over but Stella refused. Blanche and Stella go to the back of the apartment and Blanche plays some music. This angers an already inebriated Stanley and he throws the radio out the window. He tries to hurt Blanche but ends up hitting Stella for trying to stop him from doing so. Stella, who is humiliated, goes into the kitchen and orders Stanley’s friends to leave. This leads to Stanley attacking Stella again. Finally, Stanley’s friends get ahold of him and Blanche takes Stella to Eunice’s apartment. A little later, Stanley stands at the bottom of the stairs