STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE CHARACTER NOTES

CHARACTERS

BLANCHE DUBOIS 

•  A fallen women in society 
• Fortune and estate has gone 
• Young husband lost to suicide 
• Drinking probelm - kept on the sly 
• Insecure (age) and dislocated (not comftable in the enviorment) -page 7 
• aging - panic of fading beauty - page 45 
• Her manner is dainty and frail 
• Pretends to be a women who has never know indiginty - snobbery, making herself more attractive to male suitors- page 47 
• self estem depends on male sexual admiriation 
• By marrying Mitch she thinks she can escape her poor repuation and her proverty 
• Disaloous herself that Shep will resuce her - She has no realistic possiblity of future happiness 
• Mitch is her only way out page 73
• Blanche trys to sheild hersef from the truth of her situtation - drink 
• Whole play about Blanche's crumbling self image and sanity 
• At the end we see the sad image of Blance's vianty and total depence on men for happiness page 88-89 

       STANELY KOWALSKI 

• Start of play - Loyal to friends and passionate to wife - things are never as the seem 
• Animalistic physcail features 
• Loves work, fighting and sex page 13 
• outraged - use of derogatory terms 
• repersents new, heterogeneous America 
• Sees himself as a social leveler secen 8 
• Hate for Blanche is motivated by the aristocratic past Blance represents page 65 
• sees Blance as untrustworhty 
• Doesnt like that Blanche tries to fool him and his friends that she is better than them 
• He animosity towards Blance is should through actions (dymanic verbs) - Invesigates her past, Birthday present to her and sabotage of her and Mitch's relationship 
• End of play - we see Stanely as brutish, harmful and crude ( villan ) 
• Likes gumbling, blowing, sex and drinking 
• Lacks ideas and imagination ( Blanche as too much of) page 68 
• Disturbing and degemate…