Stella Kowalski

This play by Tennessee Williams portrays a woman who is very distraught about her past years and copes with it by her sexuality. She puts her imagination ahead of her real life, eventually finding it very hard to disguise what is real. Blanche, Stella's older sister, A high school English teacher from Laurel, Mississippi arrived in New Orleans a city of despair with an ultimately crumbling figure. Blanche once was married to and passionately in love with a tortured young man. Once Blanche…

characters. I do believe that Stella and Blanche are multidimensional characters. In my opinion Stella and Blanche each have their flaws and strengths, beyond the stereotype society would give them as the abused girlfriend and the promiscuous drunk. I believe the way they interact with others and each other demonstrate that. Stella grew up in Belle Reve with Blanche, but seemed to ween off her luxurious living once she grows up and marries Stanley. This proves that Stella is a strong…

Bathing and the Role of the Bathroom in A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire focuses on the mysterious and thought-provoking personality and state of mind of Blanche DuBois. Throughout the play the most prominent characteristic we learn about her is her desire to be fresh and to look young. In connection with her wish of eternal beauty comes the important symbol of the bath which appears several times during the play, to help not only Blanche to rest and find…

injustice of gender inequality. In the beginning of the play, Blanche moves in with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley, in New Orleans. Coming from Laurel, Mississippi, Blanche was accustomed to a more proper lifestyle compared to her Polish brother-in-law’s, so when she first arrived in the Quarter she was shocked by the new lifestyle her sister has adopted. Blanche’s criticism did not really bother Stella, but it aggravated Stanley because he’s very proud of his lifestyle. This…

story, the past lurks throughout the story, haunting the character’s present. Blanche is a mentally unstable woman who was forced to flee her home when all her relatives passed away. Stella reluctantly allows Blanche to live with them, and during the course of her stay, Blanche brings the past into their home. Although Stella tries to be the neutral ground between Stanley and Blanche’s bickering, her past always finds a way to interfere most with her present, causing friction between her husband…

a girl named Blanche Dubois. Blanche goes to New Orleans to visit her pregnant sister, Stella. Another character who is also there is Stella’s husband, Stanley. Blanche was struggling with her life so she decided to visit her sister until get becomes better. Blanche explains to Stella that the bank has taken their family’s plantation away. Stanley thinks something is fishy about what Blanche is telling Stella. He thinks she sold the land and took the money. Since Stanley thinks Blanche is lying…

Characters in plays come in many ways with several traits that make he or she unique. With literary devices such as irony and symbolism, authors can help readers analyze the character even closer. Blanche Dubois is a wealthy, up-scaled class woman, at least, that is what she wants people to believe, who goes to visit her sister in New Orleans. Blanche is a character in Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire” who has gone through many tough trails in life. Not always making the best…

In the film “A Streetcar Named Desire” there are multiple scenes that have conflict between appearance and reality. The plot of the film is ambiguous and it ends without a resolution. The incredible camera work and techniques that Elia Kazan did, created a feeling of confusion and misjudgment, making the audience want to see more. On the other hand, Kazan’s film main character Blanche DuBois, is played by Vivien Leigh. Furthermore, Vivien Leigh, creates a divergent character in the film who…

for disaster. Well-known American playwright, Tennessee Williams, in his iconic play, A Streetcar Named Desire, eloquently illustrates the life of Blanche DuBois, an impecunious woman that has moved to New Orleans and is now living with her sister Stella and her sister’s husband Stanley, after being evicted from her ancestral home in Laurel, Mississippi. Stanley is a catalyst in Blanche’s fall from reality, as he makes it his mission to exploit the secrets of her past. When all her hopes for the…

world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this — kitchen — candle…” This line describes the love she lost and how her life hasn’t been the same since. After moving in with Stanley and Stella, Blanche began to look for a new man to take care of her. First, her eyes were set on Harold Mitchell, also known as Mitch. Out of Stanley’s gang of friends, he was the only one that she was seemingly attracted to. They began to go out, and…