Mitch and Blanche are very different despite the fact that they connect almost instantly. What Blanche really wants from Mitch is some to marry her, so she can finally leave Stella and Stanley’s apartment. Although blanches ideal guy would be someone who can sweep her off her feet immediately, a rich and exciting man who can provide her with whatever she desires. However because she is now living a new life in New Orleans she is introduced to some of Stanley’s friends, but unlike Stanley and the rest of the boys Mitch seems different to Blanche, her exact words about him being “superior to the others.” He is more proper than the others. She is attracted to his sensitivity and gentility. She says he is a natural gentleman and because of that she found an interest in him pretty quickly. As for Mitch from the minute they met he almost immediately began to like her. As they continue dating and start getting to know each other it seems like Mitch really knows Blanche, but he doesn’t. Blanche has fed lies to him about almost every aspect of her life, like her age, what brought her to visit Stella in New Orleans, why she left her job as a school teacher. She deceives him to think of her as prim and proper. It’s because of all these lies Mitch has fallen head over heels about Blanche. However she starts to confide in him, she put all her lying aside and decides to tell him about the death of Allan, her late husband. Being that Mitch has also had to deal with the loss of a girl he once loved, Blanche feels some sort of secure feeling like she’s safe with Mitch. It’s like she’s happy that someone finally understands her. It’s because of this understanding that although Mitch is not her “ideal” man, Blanche can possibly see herself having a ...
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... were both raised the same but they way they prefer their men is completely different. You can say that Stanley and Stella’s relationship is very complex, it is clear that they both love each other immensely but their relationship is abusive. Stanley has hit Stella countless times. And because Stanley is strong and masculine, that makes him a very good lover to Stella. She stays with him because she loves him more than anything. After Stella left Belle Reve and met Stanley he had became her life, her everything which is why Stella sees past his angry rages because in a way she kind of enjoys it. Yes Stanley and Stella fight, but they are great together and make each other happy. Blanche on the other had would never put up with that kind of behavior from any man. Mitch is very respectful of Blanche he is a calm person and is gentle with her, unlike Stanley and Stella.
Comparing A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof In the game of life, a man is given the option to bluff, raise, or fold. He is dealt a hand created by the consequences of his choices or by outside forces beyond his control. It is a never ending cycle: choices made create more choices. Using diverse, complex characters simmering with passion and often a contradiction within themselves, Tennessee Williams examines the link between past and present created by man's choices in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. "
In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, main character Blanche Dubois to begin with seems to be a nearly perfect model of a classy woman whose social interaction, life and behavior are based upon her sophistication. The play revolves around her, therefore the main theme of drama concerns her directly. In Blanche is seen the misfortune of a person caught between two worlds-the world of the past and the world of the present-unwilling to let go of the past and unable, because of her character, to come to any sort of terms with the present.
Relationships in A Streetcar Named Desire In many modern day relationships between a man and a woman, there is usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. It may be women over men, men over women, or in what the true definition of a marriage is an equal partnership. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Stanley is clearly the more dominant figure over Stella.
In today's rough and tough world, there seems to be no room for failure. The pressure to succeed in life sometimes seems unreasonable. Others often set expectations for people too high. This forces that person to develop ways to take the stress and tension out of their lives in their own individual ways. In the plays "The Glass Menagerie" and " A Streetcar Named Desire" written by Tennessee Williams, none of the characters are capable of living in the present and facing reality. Two of the characters are Amanda Wingfield and Blache Dubios. In order for these characters to deal with the problems and hardships in their lives they retreat into their own separate worlds of illusion and lies.
Some critics may consider Mitch to be two dimensional in the sense that although he was partially to blame for Blanche’s unstable state of mind at the end of the play, he was not the main cause of it. Blanche appears to be slightly mad when Mitch comes to see her in scene nine, however she still has some control and is coherent enough to defend her past actions. However, after Stanley has raped her, she appears to be completely unaware of what is really going on around her ‘she’s got it mixed in her mind with Shep Huntleigh’. This shows that it was the rape which finally destroyed her, not Mitch breaking up with her.
Within Tennessee Williams's story about love and abuse within marriage and challenging familial ties, there lie three very different characters that all see the world in vastly different ways. These members of a family that operate completely outside of our generation’s norms, are constantly unsure of themselves and their station within the binary not only of their familial unit, but within the gender binary that is established for them to follow. Throughout the story of the strange family, each character goes through a different arch that changes them irrevocably whether it is able to be perceived or not by those around them. The only male, Stanley is initially the macho force in the home who controls everything without question. He has no consequences for his actions against his wife and is never held accountable for treating the people around him poorly; this lasts until Blanche arrives. Blanche is an outwardly demure, but spirited young woman who after experiencing untold misfortune breaks mentally and decides to no longer care what others may think of her. She lives her life lavishly and foolishly by having dalliances with younger or richer men who shower her with gifts and attention to get sex from her all too willing form. Her effect on Stanley is one of temptation and challenge; she continually tries to convince her sister that she is too good for the man and in turn fosters a resentment for her in him. Stella acts as the antithesis of Stanley and Blanche’s extreme personalities. She is innocence and purity where they are the darkness that threatens to overtake her life. Throughout, Stella is a pawn that they both try to use against the other to no real avail as she is determined to make the best choice for herself. In th...
Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911. As a successful playwright, his career was greatly influenced by events in his life. He was noted for bringing the reader "a slice of his own life and the feel of southern culture", as his primary sources of inspiration were "the writers he grew up with, his family, and the South." The connection between his life and his work can be seen in several of his plays.
Blanche’s developmental history or character development points to her diagnosis. Blanche comes to New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella after being fired from her job as a schoolteacher due to having an inappropriate affair with a teenage student. When she arrives to see her sister, she is consumed with insecurities regarding her appearance and is condescending to her sister’s humble lifestyle. Stella’s husband Stanley immediately has distrust and dislike for Blanche and treats her
The essential conflict of the story is between Blanche, and her brother in-law Stanley. Stanley investigates Blanche’s life to find the truth of her promiscuity, ruining her relationships with Stella, and her possible future husband Mitch, which successfully obtain his goal of getting Blanche out of his house. Blanche attempts to convince Stella that she should leave Stanley because she witnessed a fight between the two. Despite these instances, there is an essence of sexual tension between the two, leading to a suspected rape scene in which one of their arguments ends with Stanley leading Blanche to the bed. Branching from that, Stella has an inner conflict because she does not know whether to side with her husband or her sister in each situation. Blanche and Mitch ha...
She is anithetical to him in the story be cause Mitch tries to make a serious relationship with her but he couldn't be cause they are both not right which makes them have problems and fights throughout the story. For example when Mitch tells Blanche "
Neither Stanley nor Mitch was intelligent enough to comprehend that not everything is black and white. They perceived her as a deceitful whore. Stella chose her husband over her sister. Also, Mitch could not overlook her mistakes. Mitch focused on her flaws, which blinded him from seeing the beauty and love Blanche had to offer.
As I stand here is Stanley's arms and hear my sister inside, I have so many thoughts that run through my head. I wish Stanley had not told Mitch about what he found out about Blanche's past. I saw how they were getting along, the adoring star's in Mitch's eyes everytime he looked at Blanche, and the contradicting peace and excitment that came over Blanche everytime she waited for Mitch to come and see her. If given time they would have had a chance. A chance at love and happyness. Not the kind of love that hits you like a freight train, like me and Stanley. But more of the gentle love that flows and mingles until it connects two people to the point that they are inseperatable. Everyone has something in their past that they are not proud of and try to hide. Though I am reluctant to beleive the stories that Stanley tells about my sister, I must admit that there could be some truth in what he says, even with his great dislike for my sister, he would not hurt me deliberetly in this way with mistruths.
Stella represents an important part in this drama by providing a contrast to how life can change people when they go down different paths. In Contrast to her sister, Stella is bound to love. Although she fell in love with a primitive, common man, she most definitely loves him. Stella desires only to make Stanley happy and live a beautiful life together. She wants to find peace between her sister and her husband yet instead she finds conflict afflicting her on both sides. Blanche uses her dilutions and tries to sway Stella away from Stanley yet Stella takes all these slanders and belittles them. Stella does this because she loves Stanley and since she is pregnant with his baby.
Tennessee Williams was one of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century. Most of his plays take us to the southern states and show a confused society. In his works he exposes the degeneration of human feelings and relationships. His heroes suffer from broken families and they do not find their place in the society. They tend to be lonely and afraid of much that surrounds them. Among the major themes of his plays are racism, sexism, homophobia and realistic settings filled with loneliness and pain.1 Tennessee Williams characters showed us extremes of human brutality and sexual behavior.2 One of his most popular dramas was written in 1947, and it is called A Streetcar Named Desire.
Stanley (Stella's husband) represents a theme of realism in the play; he is shown as a primitive, masculine character that is irresistible to Stella and on some levels even to his "opponent" Stella's sister Blanche.