A Streetcar Named Desire: Stanley

Characteristics
1. Domineering and Posessive
2. Animalistic physical vigor
  1. Blanche: "he acts like an animal, has an animals habits!" "bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle"
  2. "animal joy in his being is implicit"
3. Contrast between drunk aggression and sober loving husband
  1. Reactions
    1. Blanche see's Stanley as a contender/force to be reckoned with
    2. Stella "thrilled" by outburst of violent foreplay "I was-sort of-thrilled by it"
4. Symbols
  1. Bringing home meat from butcher
  2. Poker and bowling pleasures
  3. Clothing is loud and gaudy
  4. Language is rough and crude
Goals
1. Antagonist: set against Blanche/responsible for her descend into insanity
2. Remain strongest in the survival of the fittest"
Representation
1. New, heterogeneous America-sees himself as a social reveler
2. Gender Roles
  1. Domineering male of the household
    1. Stanley believes women are homemakers
Relationships
1. Physical/sexual relationship with Stella
  1. Sex: way of keeping close and righting each others wrongs
2. Blanche
  1. Threat to Stanley -unwelcomed presence in household
    1. Acts as a disruptive force in his ordered household/lifestyle
  2. Intense hatred motivated by her aristocratic past

Resource summary

	Created by Maria Oliver1405 over 8 years ago