Street Car Named Desire

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Lorinda Asante, Crystal Ramos, Kwasi Amaning Ms. Balant Period 1 April 21, 2013 Tableaux Essay In the play “A street car named Desire” the author Tennessee Williams uses the theme of Gender roles to show how men and women differed in the play. The characters Stella Kowalski, Stanley Kowalski, and Blanche Dubois are living in a small apartment and while living there, many problems begin to surfacing and Blanche and Stanley have a hard time getting along with each other. In the beginning of the play, Stanley comes from playing bowling, and throws a package of meat at Stella. When he does this, Stanley is characterized as an impolite disrespectful man. Stella on the other hand, does not thing there is anything wrong with her husband throwing a package of meat at her. Stella’s Sister Blanche recently visits and says that she has lost Belle Reve. When Stanley doesn’t believe her story he talks to Stella about it and decides to go through Blanche’s trunk to prove his point. While searching her trunk, Stanley notices that Blanche has a lot of material things and love letters from someone. Blanche defends herself by saying all her clothes were from her late husband, as well as the letters too. Blanche says that since Stanley has touched her letters, she now has to burn them. While playing a poker game one night with his friends, Stanley becomes very drunk and angry because he is losing. Blanche and Stella are bored and decide to play some music on the radio. This gets on Stanley’s nerves, and he throws the radio out of the window. After this little incident takes place, Stanley’s hits Stella and she goes to her neighbor Eunice’s house, along with her older sister Blanche. Stanley’s alcohol rubs off and he realizes that Stella is not with him. Missing her dearly, he goes outside and starts screaming his wife’s name. Stella comes back down and hugs
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