Gender in Streetcar
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- Created on: 29-04-20 09:55
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- Gender
- Stanley
- Dominant / violent personality
- Exaggerated masculinity
- Animalistic
- "animal joy in his being"
- "Drunk-drunk-animal thing, you" (P62)
- Stella
- Stella Submits to Stanley
- Stanley
- Dominant / violent personality
- Exaggerated masculinity
- Animalistic
- "animal joy in his being"
- "Drunk-drunk-animal thing, you" (P62)
- Stanley
- Man is meant to be the breadwinner, women stay at home and cook/clean
- Stella cleans up after Stanley hits her
- Stella cleans up after Stanley hits her
- Stella chooses Stanley over Blanche, the only way she can survive?
- Stella Submits to Stanley
- Blanche
- Contrast to Stella (married woman)
- Stella
- Stella Submits to Stanley
- Man is meant to be the breadwinner, women stay at home and cook/clean
- Stella cleans up after Stanley hits her
- Stella cleans up after Stanley hits her
- Stella chooses Stanley over Blanche, the only way she can survive?
- Stella Submits to Stanley
- Stella
- Very concerned with how others see her, she tries to hide herself by compulsively lying
- delicate, elegant and feminine
- addiction to alcohol was more typical of men in this time
- "Now don't get worried, your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard, she's just all shaken up and hot and tired and dirty!" (P12)
- Women in the 1940s were expected to star seeking out careers for the first time (she is an English teacher)
- "Blanche looks after Mitch with a certain interest" (P512
- Allan was feminine, not expected of men at the time
- Contrast to Stella (married woman)
- Mitch
- Sensitive
- Cares for his mother
- Needs a wife to take home to his mother
- Stanley
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