A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Blanche Dubois, the protagonist in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire play seeks to reside with Stella Kowalski, her sister, but Stanley Kowalski, Stellas husband, is against the humor. Blanche used to live at her parents home in Mississippis Laurel area but the mansion has been foreclosed due to an owing(predicate) mortgage. She therefore desperately seeks shelter at her New Orleans sisters home.Blanches disdainful and contemptuous attitude however defecates Stanley oppose the idea of hosting her from the very drivening. For example, although Blanche is currently a hopeless destitute, she looks at Stanleys modest home with utter scorn (Williams 6).Blanches delusional class considerations prevent her from acknowledging that she is at the moment at the mercy of the Kowalskis. She thus demonstrates derision towards the Kowalski house that makes Stanley to immediately dislike her. Blanches ridiculously fantastic reasoning even makes her try to entice Stella to leave Stanl ey.Blanche holds that Stanley is that Stella is of a higher well-disposed status than Stanley. This is clearly a preposterous argument based on the existing facts (Jerz 35). If at all in that location are suitable men who can rescue Stella from Stanley, then it beats sense to imagine that Blanche has come to seek shelter at Stellas place.Blanche should get in fact gone to one of those high-class men and thus avoid becoming the desperate destitute she currently is. Williams thus uses Blanche to illustrate the thwarting that a blind loyalty to class and social distinctions causes to people.To begin with, Stanleys justified hatred for Blanche makes Blanches life become increasingly hard. As an illustration, Stanley hosts a poker game tournament whereby a number of his colleagues come to play. It then occurs that Mitch, one of Stanleys friends becomes smitten by Blanche and the two begin an affair. Stanley does not however want all of his friends to be associated in any way with Bl anche.To demonstrate his utter disgust towards Blanche, Stanley violently disrupts a rendezvous that Mitch is having with Blanche in Stanleys bedroom. Stanley even offers Blanche a bus ticket to Mississippi to demonstrate that she is essentially unwelcome in his house. To make matters worse, Stanley investigates Blanches past life, which is ugly, and relates all the details to Mitch.This situation makes Mitch to tell Blanche to her face that he cannot marry her. Blanches contemptuousness has thus led to her losing a promising marriage mate who would potentially rescue her from her financial quagmire (Clum 126).Afterwards, a clearly deluded Blanche boastfully tells Stanley that she is soon leaving the Kowalski residence with a millionaire boyfriend named Shep Huntleigh. Since Stella is just about to have a baby, Stanley briefly puts deflection his disdain for Blanche and suggests that the two have a party. Blanche however brushes rudely aside Stanleys suggestion. This dev elopemen t causes tension between Blanche and Stanley (Griffies 120). In the ensuing events, Stanley rapes Blanche.This rape ordeal is authoritative because it mainly results from Blanches contemptuous character. Had she agreed to engage in merrymaking with Stanley instead of showing disrespect to him, Stanley would not likely have raped her. A new twist is introduced to the play because Blanche cannot convince anyone that Stanley actually raped her. It is implausible how someone can rape someone whom they hate as Stanley detests Blanche. It is thus fake that Blanche has gone mad and that she should be confined in an asylum for mad persons.Again, Blanches disdainful attitude is causing her problems because not body is giving her any attention regarding her raping by Stanley. Stella is at the forefront in arranging fir Blanche to be whisked away. The presumably man girl is thus taken away to an asylum. Williams has thus shown that wishful thinking and cosmetic class distinctions usually hav e disastrous results.In addition, through the play, Williams presents three important social lessons. Firstly, he demonstrates that artificial class distinctions that make different-class people not interact are improper.This is because Stellas marriage to Stanley seems to go on smoothly despite the fact that the two are of quire varied social classes. Stanley is of a lower class than Stella. The couple however has a fairly uneventful marriage life with the exception of the incidence when Stanley hits Stella mainly due to Blanches influence.Secondly, Williams seeks to urge people against adopting an escapist stance of entertaining ridiculous thoughts so as to mentally escape from objectiveity. Blanche is a perfect illustration of this concept. Her wild illusions prevents her from pass judgment that she is indeed needy and has to put up with any situation that comes her way. She thus offends Stanley, an aspect that leads to her sad demise. Stanley is angry that Blanche disdainfully looks down upon his lowly status.Moreover, Williams seeks to inform readers that real love knows no bounds through Stella and Stanleys marriage. Stella truly loves Stanley despite the fact that the couple is of humble means. Even after she is beaten, Stella warmly embraces Stanley. Stanley also loves Stella as is evident from the loving embrace he gives his wife at the end of the play (Timm 154). Works CitedClum, John M. Still Acting Gay Male crotchet in Modern Drama. New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.Griffies, W. Scott. A Streetcar Named Desire and Tennessee Williams Object-Relational Conflicts. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 4. 2 (2006) 110-27.Jerz, Dennis G. 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