STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE CHARACTER NOTES
- Created by: Ellie may
- Created on: 14-05-13 20:05
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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…
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