Streetcar Named Desire

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A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennesse Williams (1947), is often characterized as the most extraordinary play that portrays the authentic South American life in the late 40`s and reflects the psychological interactions between the realistic inhabitants of the crowded Elysian Street, a home for the working labor class. Also, the narrative discourse of the play, in a sensitive manner, reveals more profound psychological characterizations of the main protagonists and the background topics such as gender differences, sexual intercourses, the submissive women`s roles and the dominant and aggressive nature of the male in the heteronormative post-war society. Although it seems that the playwright is about the decadence of the working-class society, still, the internal background of the story shows sensitive topics such as fear od loneliness, the symbolism of madness and the consequences of the abusive and violent attitude towards women.The real significance of the notion "desire" is, in fact, related to the relationship between Stela, a young inferior wife, and her husband, the Polish officer Stanley

Namely, the arrival of Stela`s older and superior sister Blanche reveals the true nature of her husband`s character. He suddenly becomes nervous, suspicious and insecure. He is the man that wants to have an absolute control, a gambler who starts to speak about Napoleon code, which means that "what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa" (p. 28). Blanche compares him to the stone man who "acts like an animal" (p. 74), so Stella cannot be sure that he is going to " strike her, or maybe kiss her" (p. 74). After one drunken, gambling night inside their house, Stanley physically attacks his pregnant wife and soon after the incident acts like nothing happened, begging Stella to forgive him: "he breaks into sobs (p. 54), calling her "sweet baby"