Streetcar Named Desire Relationships

The storyline of Tennessee Williams's famous play paints a powerful image of the blurred lines that can form between relationships built on true love, pure physical attraction, or simple necessity. A Streetcar Named Desire revolves around the struggle between the rugged, irrational Stanley Kowalski and his anxious, uptight sister-in-law Blanche DuBois as well as the conflicted position this puts his wife in as she is pulled between two different worlds. The greater meaning of the story lies in the implications behind these relationships and the way that they conflict each other. Conflicting character traits are a key aspect of the play as a whole and come to encompass various discrepancies between people's financial backgrounds, mental states, and general personalities. However, the most important of these differences is how …show more content…
Rather logically, she responds with great dismay at seeing her pregnant sister's husband drunkenly beat her. Like the audience, she is suddenly a part of a world that she can barely understand, much less be comfortable with. She has a much more cynical perception of love which had resulted from a past love just as passionate as Stella and Stanley’s relationship. His death, as well as her resulting promiscuity, caused her to take a much more logical approach in finding a man - preferably one with money - that she can safely settle down with. This contrasts sharply with Stanley's and Stella's mindless physical passion and less than glamorous lifestyle. Although Stella and Blanche started out with the same financial backgrounds, Stella was perfectly happy to settle for a much poorer lifestyle because it meant she could be with someone that she loves. Blanche, on the other hand, is willing to settle for anyone who can provide her with a safe and reliable future even if it means she can never find love