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How Does Stanley Present Blanche

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Throughout the whole play, Blanche's presence, actions and thoughts have had an effect on all the characters, especially Stella, Stanley and Mitch. Whether it was Blanche's fantasy prone personality clashing with Stanley's "living in the physical world" ideologies, Stella's culpable irresponsibility contrasting with Blanche's dramatic nature, or Blanche's promiscuity causing Mitch to become disgusted by her, enough to completely shut down any hope for starting a romantic relationship, her character has been very successful in bringing out different sides of the other characters that we may have never learnt otherwise. This is why, when Blanche is institutionalised against her own will, the reactions of these three characters reveal their true …show more content…

Mitch has always been a man of few words, and he is not any different in the last scene, though the way he structures his sentences suggests that all the thoughts he has been repressing have just burst out of him. He blames Stanley, calls him out and tells him it's because of his "God damn interfering things" that there is so much conflict. The hypocrisy here is tremendous; when Mitch found out about Blanche's sexual history, he was very judgemental as he wanted a "pure" and "clean" woman, which feed into the sexist views their society contains. Mitch wants what Stanley has, a submissive woman that has been brainwashed into thinking that that is all she'll ever live, and that her husband has the right to do whatever he pleases with her. If Mitch was so comfortable spewing these misogynistic words, why is he suddenly so appalled by how Stanley treated Blanche? Mitch doesn't know that Stanley raped Blanche, so why does he think that his judgment of Blanche is any better than Stanley's? Mitch is a very weak character; we do see him standing up to Stanley in the last scene, but it is very likely that he will stay friends with him, and still attend the poker nights at his

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He regretted it and was crying for her to go back to him and love him. Also, love in this story is filled with insecurities and secrets. Blanche and Mitch would have been official, but Mitch believed what he was being told about Blanche and did not want her for hearing she was not “pure”. Stanley and Stella are in

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He desires a normal life with Stella, without Blanche in the picture. As told in A Streetcar Named Desire--Psychoanalytic Perspectives, “After exposing all of Blanches shameful secrets and destroying her plans to marry Mitch, Stanley completes her violation and subjugation by raping her, which drives her to insanity” (A Streetcar Named Desire--Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Silvio). Stanley desires a normal life without Blanche so bad, that he completely broke her to get it. Stanley also wants to be desired.

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She frequently relies on her perception of herself as an object of male sexual desire. She always starts with flirting when she comes in contact with men. Blanche tells Stella that she and Stanley smoothed things over when she began to flirt with him, “I called him a little boy and laughed and flirted. Yes, I flirted with your husband.” (44) When Blanche meets Stanley’s poker-playing friends, she takes interest to Mitch and sees him as a possible choice for her to find companionship.

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In Scene 10, she deviously claims that she has just received a telegram from the millionaire, Steph Huntleigh, to explain why she is dressed up. At first, Stanley plays along, but once Blanche musters up the audacity to say that Mitch returned to their apartment seeking repentance, Stanley draws the line. He calls her out for her fictitious tales of her past, and states, “We’ve had this date from the start,” just before he maliciously rapes Blanche. Their natures root in primal, animalistic instincts, Stanley like a dirty hog, open and free concerning his sexuality, Blanche like a fox, sly and deceitful. Despite her incessant attempts to destroy her past, Blanche is unable to stop their sexual connection as she has had so many other men.

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Stanley continues to impose his reality onto Blanche, which causes her more anxiety relying more and more on herself to create more of an illusion by creating an admirer for herself, saying that she ended it with Mitch because she does not deserve “deliberate cruelty”, and crating this alter ego for herself as being pure. While Stella is in the hospital, he and Blanche are left alone for the night as she continues bragging about her admiration coming from Sheep Hunt Leigh and how she just got a wire from him. Stanley catches her in her life, finally tearing apart Blanche's illusions. Although Stanley has been a threat to her through his suspicion and empowering masculinity over her, the last scene is where he finally takes final control over her, or symbolically where reality has a final triumph over her illusions. While catching her in the midst of her lies she reveals to Blanche that “[he’s] been on to [Blanche] from the start!”

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As Tish Dace writes in A Street Car Named Desire, “Streetcar’s original producer, Irene Selznick, as a woman, may have been touched by the power of double standard to dictate that Blanche’s father and grandfather could indulge in ‘epic fornications’ and Stanley could be admired for his sexual prowess, but a woman of Blanche’s class, once she has slipped off her pedestal, is fair target for rape” (Dace). Blanche’s promiscuity is the reason Mitch will not marry her and it is the reason she is banned from her hometown, while Stanley, guilty of the same crime, is not punished at all but admired for

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Stanley even expects Blanche to “come clean” about her private affairs. When he finds news of her sexual encounters, Mitch gets mad at Blanche for not wanting to have sex with him. She tells him, “I guess you are used to girls who like to get lost. The kind that get lost immediately, on the first date!” (Williams 87).

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This instability is largely the result of her desire. When speaking with Mitch about the death of her husband Allan she says, “Yes, that’s where I brought my victims… Yes, I had many intimacies with strangers. After the death of Allan- intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with” (Williams, page 382). In this instance, Blanche uses her desire to escape the destruction of negative emotions, all the while causing more disaster for herself.

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