Stella Kowalski In A Streetcar Named Desire

Kowalski’s need to be in control is his central personality trait, for all other parts of him branch off of it. For example, the reason Kowalski is so cruel and suspecting is he is in constant belief that someone is trying to undermine his authority. Kowalski’s suspicious nature and possessive ways are demonstrated when he accuses DuBois of withholding money from him and Stella Kowalski. Stanley Kowalski sees DuBois’s seemingly expensive clothing, including white fox pieces and a gold dress, and makes the jump that DuBois must have sold, not lost, Belle Reve, her and Stella Kowalski’s childhood home. He suspects DuBois used the money to buy the expensive jewelry and rhinestone tiara instead of giving some to Stella Kowalski and him. Stanley

Stanley Kowalski wants to keep Stella Kowalski, so he sets out to get rid of what was pulling her away-DuBois. Kowalski believes that DuBois is to blame for any disobedience he has from Stella Kowalski because DuBois has made a fool of him. She shows Stella Kowalski how Stanley Kowalski is rude and possessive by calling him things such as Polack and brute and consistently corrects his grammar and way of speech, causing Stella Kowalski to have doubts over Stanley and her relationship (Williams). DuBois treats Kowalski like an ape because that is what he acts like, and Stella Kowalski begins to see Stanley Kowalski’s Paleolithic actions and treats him as DuBois does, resulting in Kowalski retaliating with violence. DuBois also goes behind Stanley Kowalski’s back to try and get Stella Kowalski to leave him. She pleads with Stella Kowalski, saying, “He [Stanley] acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one!” and in a desperate attempt to get Stella Kowalski to leave tells her, “Don’t- don’t hang back with the brutes” (Williams

Therefore, in order for books to have any sense of reality, interactions must be made between characters. If they are not, the subtle mirage a book creates is stripped away. Although authors include interactions to make a work realistic for the readers, authors also employ characters for their own purposes-to bring out a theme or underlying message. Tennessee Williams author of A Streetcar Named Desire, does so with his characters Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois who have a relationship built on mistrust and hatred, and bring out a theme of the inability to escape. John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace utilizes Phineas and Gene Forrester’s love-hate relationship with envious undertones to illuminate the threat of codependency. Lastly, Alice Walker, author of “Everyday Use,” uses the two part submissive and dominant relationship of Maggie and Dee to illustrate the importance of memories. A book would be nothing but blank pages if not for the interactions, benevolent and malevolent, of characters, as would one’s life be blank without the people in