Streetcar Named Desire Stanley Character Analysis

Characterization is how authors reveal characters and their personalities. In the book A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams does an amazing job bringing each and every character in the book to life from the little boy Blanche runs into on the street to Stanley the over opinionated man. Stanley is a man that in looks every women would dream in having. However Stanley´s Violent acts, Backstabbing, and being a pervert is just a couple things that no women would ever want in a man. Stanley Kowalski, is a man of violence. In the book A Streetcar Named Desire Stanley comes off as a very violent man. “Stanley yells at Stella, ‘Stella catch!’, ‘What?’ Stella replies turning around. As Stella is turning around Stanley Heaves the package of

His wife's sister comes to visit them for a little and instead of being nice and respectful to her he goes to one of his inside sources and has them go through all of Blanches personal information. The perfect example of him doing this is that he goes and finds exactly what happened at the tech school. ¨She did´t resign temporarily from the high school because of her nerves! No, Siree, Bob! She didn´t. They kicked her out of that high school before the spring term ended….because of the seventeen-year-old boy- she'd gotten mixed up with (Williams, 2004, p. 122)¨. This is a great example about how Stanley is a backstabbing man he went behind Stella and Blanche´s backs and found stuff out that was none of his business. Most people would think that the only reason he did this is because he thinks that Blanche is rubbing off on Stella. Not only that but she has been trying to go after one of his best friends. Stanley is one of those men that won't just let things go he has to keep on picking and picking until he gets what he wants. ¨Set down! I've got th´ dope on your big sister, Stella. You Know she's been feeding us a pack of lies here (Williams, 2004, p. 118)?¨ In this section of the play Stanley tries to tell Stella about her ¨little lilly¨ of a sister. But when Stella tries to ignore him until he uses a very stern voice to make her sit down. Stella tries to not believe that Stanley in the

Stanley throughout the book does not really seem to have an interest in Blanche. But at the end of the story that all changes Stanley decides to create a very special interest in Blanche. The part that no one can understand is exactly why Stanley would want to do that due to the idea that Blanche is Stella's sister. Stanley´s brilliant idea was to wait until Stella was gone and then things started to get a little more intense. ¨ Oh! So you want some rough-house! All right, let's have some rough-house (Williams, 2004, p. 162)!¨ In this quote that stanley sternly says to Blanche as he advances towards her while she tries to fight back. After Blanches falls to her knees Stanley picks up her very weak body and puts her on the bed. Stanley also has another interesting thing about him the only thing he really wants is poker and sex because everytime that Stella and him fight, they always make up by having sex or by making