... detrimental to both parties and leads to the breakdown in love and Stella's placing of Stanley above her sister. Therefore arguing that Williams presents love, in this case familial, to be destructive. Their relationship throughout the play is strained; it is in the passage after Blanche's confession of the loss of Belle Reve that Stella starts to understand ... man and a woman, there are usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. Although as a result of Tennessee Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," being comparatively modern the relationships are naturally pre...

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