... broken up due to the desires of both Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. However, Stella, Stanley's wife, also contributes to the unfaithfulness of her husband. It is Stella's weak demeanor and complete difference in identity from that of her sister, Blanche, that drives Stanley to commit an unfaithful act with Blanche. No one person ... is to blame for the breakup of the DuBois/Kowalski family. Blanche, Stella, and even Stanley played their own role is disrupting the peace that was once shared among them ... it that she receive proper treatment. All three of the main characters in this...

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... Smith. Costly Performances: Tennessee Williams, The Last Stage. New York Paragon House, 1990. Blanche Dubois: Blanche Dubois is the older sister of Stella Kowalski who visits them in New Orleans and stays throughout the summer. She was an English teacher in Mississippi and is very proper, modest, and prudent. ... visions of hearing polka tunes and gunshots. Blanche cannot be around direct light and is overly concerned with her appearance, accessories, bathing, and age. Stanley Kowalski: Stanley is Stella's husband. He works in a factory and has little 'proper' upbringing. Stella loves ...

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... their relationships will never be the same again. All these emotions reach their climax point as Blanche is leaving Kowalski family. The last scene starts while Stanley was winning the poker game. Stanley has been losing poker games in the previous scenes but at that time he was winning. The game was ... illusion and reality"(60). Blanche was living in her imaginary world, she was behaving as somebody else and was feeling much more worse after hearing Stanley's opinions about her because he knew how she was in real world. This conflict ended when he managed to defeat Blanche by raping h...

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... thinks that she is still young and attractive, although she hates bright light because it would reveal her. Light plays a crucial part in the struggle between Blanche and Stanley. From the beginning Blanche insists, "I cannot stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark" (Pg 54). She then puts a cover ... on the light bulb. Light represents truth, and Blanche wants to bury the truth by covering it up. Later in the play Stanley "brings to light" the true facts of Blanche's life (Pg 54). Also in this story, Blanche could not forget the death of Allan, her husband who ... wa...

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... 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'. Amanda Brooke Lerner playing Blanche was remarkable, she spoke very articulately and even sitting in the back row, you could feel her ... cannot tell fully whether she has resigned herself to Blanches plight or is in denial of what her husband could be capable of. Chris Daftsios playing Stanley is every bit a rough, weathered, almost over compensating machismo male. At times you get the sense of righteousness ...

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