A Streetcar Named Desire Blog 1

• Blog – Explain something a character does in Scene 2-3 that teaches us something new about them, something we didn’t know in Scene 1?

From the opening scene into the second and third scenes we see and learn more about each character’s personalities. One character that really pops out is Stanley. Early in the play it almost seems as though Stanley is uninterested in Stella, his wife. While she tried to talk to him Stanley focused on eating chips and was ignoring her. However, at the end of the third scene Stanley shows his affection towards Stella because he does not want to go to bed without her. “I want my baby down here. Stella, Stella!” (Pg. 59) Although he was mad at Stella earlier in the play he now shows us that he can be affectionate. Another trait of Stanley is his brutality. In the first scene he comes in holding raw meat. His clothes are loud and his language is crude. In the second scene we learn that his outside pleasures are bowling and poker. We get a sense of Stanley’s demanding personality when he is losing at poker, yet we also see his happy side when he is winning. This makes Stanley a very fascinating and interesting character.