The Brutish Stanley kowalski In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley Kowalski (Blanche's Brother-in-law) is one of the central character in the play. ... Stanley kowalski's first exhibition of his brutal actions occurs at poker night. ... This is another example of why Stanley is so brutal. ... When Blanche tells Stanley that she had put Mitch in his place for being mean to her, Stanley explodes in terror. ... Stanley approaches her carefully, but Blanche swings at him and Stanley catches her arm and forces her to drop the weapon. ...

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In the Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois's visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister's brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the reveling truth of why Blanche really came. Stanley Kowalski is a very brutal and barbaric person who always has to feel that no one is better than him. ... Stanley Kowalski's first exhibition of ...

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In A Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classic play is about Blanche Dubois's visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister's brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the reveling truth of why Blanche really came. Stanley Kowalski is a very shallow person, who always has to feel that no one is better than him. ... Stanley Kowalski's first exhibition of occurs at poker night. ... This shows that Stanley is very greedy. ...

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Stanley Kowalski mentions the Napoleonic Code of Law in attempt to sound smart and ahead in the game. ... Stella Kowalski plays the traditional role of a wife of the late 1940s. ... She left her sister Blanche behind and married the infamous character Stanley Kowalski. ... His abusive words and hands seem of no big deal in the Kowalski household. ... His father was an abusive figure in his life similar to the character Stanley Kowalski and his sister placed in a mental institution similar to Blanche DuBois. ...

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Stanley Kowalski - Stella's domineering and possessive husband and Blanche's brother-in-law. ... Stella Kowalski - Blanche's younger sister, and Stanley's wife. ... Eunice and Steve Hubbel - the Kowalski's landlords and upstairs neighbors. ... PLOT Stella Kowalski lives with Stanley, her rough and domineering husband, in a poor section of the French Quarter in New Orleans with her older sister. ... CONFLICT Blanche Dubois, representative of the fallen aristocracy of the south, is a misfit who is trying to straighten out her life while taking refuge in New ...

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The play revolves around the circumstances and actions behind four characters: Blanch Dubois, Harold Mitchell, as well as Stella and Stanley Kowalski. Stanley Kowalski is initially portrayed as an essentially decent human being. ... For the viewers themselves, Stanley is a character who is easily empathized with at this time when memories of the Great Depression are still fresh. ... But as the play progresses further and further, Stanley's character becomes more volatile and suspicious. ... While at this time, the upper-class was being criticized for being selfish, money hoarding aristoc...

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Tennessee Williams portrayed Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar named desire as a beast. ... This does not only highlight Tennessee Williams ideas of Stanley but his view of Americans like Stanley in general. ... Tennessee made sure he made everyone clear about Stanley's body structure, one could say Stanley's body was a weapon of destruction waiting to be unleashed upon those afraid. ... Stanley was not only of violent nature at heart but at mind. ... The same is portrayed by Tennessee Williams in Stanley's character. ...

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In A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. ... Stanley Kowalski's first exhibition of his brutal actions occurs at poker night. ... When Stanley's friend, Mitch, drops out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. ... When Blanche tells Stanley that she has put Mitch in his place for being mean to her, Stanley explodes in terror. ... Stanley approaches her carefully, but Blanche swings at him and Stanley catches her arm and forces her to dr...

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His father withdrew him from university to work at the International Shoe Company, where he met Stanley Kowalski, who Tennessee Williams' has plastered all over A Streetcar Named Desire. Perhaps, Tennessee saw what Stanley was like on poker nights (he acquired a gambling habit himself at some stage of his life). ...

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In the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, the family is broken up due to the desires of both Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. ... No one person is to blame for the breakup of the DuBois/Kowalski family. ... Stella undoubtedly loves Stanley wholeheartedly. ... For Blanche and Stanley the hurt is intentional. ... Everyone had a role in the demise of the DuBois/Kowalski family therefore blame can not solely be placed upon one person....

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Blanche Dubois: Blanche Dubois is the older sister of Stella Kowalski who visits them in New Orleans and stays throughout the summer. ... Stanley Kowalski: Stanley is Stella's husband. ... Stella Kowalski: Stella is Blanche's baby sister and young wife of Stanley. ... During the poker game, Stanley slaps Stella on her thigh. ... Stanley knows the truth and so does Blanche. ...

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Blanche DuBois, a penniless woman with a past full of grief from many relationships, arrives at her sister's, Stella Kowalski's, house to live for a number of months. ... Behind his back, Blanche compares Stanley to an ape. ... Blanche's harsh words about Stanley make Stanley understandably annoyed with her, and he is in no regards a villain to her at this point of the play. ... Stanley's nemesis is Blanche. ... Stanley returns to an empty house, except for Blanche. ...

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All except Stanley Kowalski, that is, who has instead been cruel to those in life. ... Stanley is a very "manly" man. ... Stanley has no tact at all. ... Stella Kowalski, formally DuBois, is a gentle, passive and homely woman. ... Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself to think of anything else." (194) In the end Stella's dependency on Stanley drove her make the very difficult choice of sending Blanche away to the mental hospital. ...

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The moment Blanche DuBois, Tennessee William's central character in A Streetcar Named Desire, enters the small New Orleans apartment that Stanley and Stella Kowalski share, one can sense exactly what Blanche is, or at least what she chooses to be. ... Although Stella Kowalski, Blanche's sister, is not entirely informed of Blanche's past, she does not think much of Blanche's above statement. ... Then she meets Stanley, Stella's husband. ... When Blanche has been staying with the Kowalskis for several weeks, she meets Mitch, a friend of Stanley's. ... Stanley figure...

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Conversely, Stanley Kowalski, Blanche's brother-in-law, is a very realistic person who seeks truth. ... Williams demonstrates this theme of reality versus fantasy through Stanley's success in finding the truth in Blanche's fictional world, the use of light symbolizing the truth that Blanche is afraid of, and the use of the setting of the Kowalski's apartment to represent the vulnerability of the interior to the exterior of the real world. ... Another representation of the vulnerability of fantasy to reality is demonstrated through the Kowalski's apartment. ... Whil...

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Blanche and Stella Blanche Dubois and Stella Kowalski, the main female characters of A Streetcar Named Desire, seem throughout the play to be at two opposite ends of the spectrum in their approach to life and in dealing with the people around them, Blanche appearing to be romantic and refined and Stella appearing to be straightforward and blue-collar, much like her husband Stanley, but while they seem different on the surface, they are sisters who both possess the same passionate drive, being different only in personality. Stella left Belle Reve, their childhood home, a few years before th...

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All these emotions reach their climax point as Blanche is leaving Kowalski family. The last scene starts while Stanley was winning the poker game. ... Long before, Blanche and Stanley had begun to see each other as a threat. ... They rang the bell, Blanche got excited and asked if it was the man that she was expecting, Eunice (Kowalskis" neighbor) lied her. ... While Blanche was running to the room Stanley taunted her cruelly and tore the lantern. ...

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First, money increases the individual conflicts between Blanche and Stanley. ... Money is used to create conflict between Blanche and Stanley. ... Although this is not a direct conflict between Blanche and Stanley, Stanley's lack of money is a source of consternation for Blanche in consideration of her sister. ... Even when examining the last names it is obvious that "The Kowalskis and the DuBoises have different notions" (2084). ... This is seen when Blanche and Stanley were talking about how Stanley found an interest in women who "Lay her cards on the table." (2085). ...

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Stanley the brut was mean and Stella was only a silent observer. ... And does that voice have any influence with Stanley? ... (36)[Stella says] Don't be such an idiot Stanley! ... Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself to think of anything else! ... So while we may question Stella's sanity for staying with violent Stanley she is at no time afraid of Stanley. ...

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The ending in Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire in which Blanche DuBois' sister Stella Kowalski leads her off to a mental hospital by a matron and a kind-hearted doctor was indeed inevitable. Blanche's "desires " have led to her eventual fate when she when stays in with Stella and her eventual "judge, jury, and executioner " Stanley Kowalski, Stella's husband. ... Stanley uses these scrutinizing remarks to fuel to revenge on Blanche. Stanley exploits Blanche's past throughout the play that slowly slips her to lunacy. The first example of Stanley exploi...

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Light plays a crucial part in the struggle between Blanche and Stanley. ... Later in the play Stanley "brings to light" the true facts of Blanche's life (Pg 54). ... In some way, Stella is the connecting figure to two different worlds; The imaginative world of Blanche, her older sister and the more common world of Stanley Kowalski. However, Blanche and Stanley both attempt to influence her, and they succeed to a degree. ... It is obvious that both sisters stand in the opposite positions to Stanley. ...

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The play is based around 3 main characters, Blanche the older sister who is like the belle of the ball, Stella the younger sister who left home and got married, and Stella's' husband Stanley, a 'common man'. ... Chris Daftsios playing Stanley is every bit a rough, weathered, almost over compensating machismo male. ... Most of the drama focuses around the Kowalski's bedroom and kitchen, the tight quarters making the tension even more intense. ... Stanley is further pushed into Blanches perceptions of him when having the need to bare his chest like the animal she calls ...

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She makes up wild stories, and when Stanley Kowalski, her brother - in - law, rapes her, the realities of life cause her to drift into absolute lunacy. ... It is Stanley who refuses to let Blanche live in a dream world. Stanley shreds the dreams of Blanche DuBois, revealing her ugly past to her sister and her beau. ... After Stanley rapes Blanche, her whole world crumbles. ... She says, "I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley." ...

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exclaims Blanche's arch enemy Stanley Kowalski. ... Whatever seemed real to Blanche might not have been real to Stanley. ... To Stanley, it was a simple trick that she used to cover her faults. ... "The Kowalskis and the Dubois have different notions." What Blanche may believe fits in her world may not coincide with Stanley's. ...

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