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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

The showy southern belle Blanche DuBois, steps into New
Orleans. She arrives at New Orleans as the product of her
desires, to the final sojourn open for her. Her sister
Stella Kowalski and Stanley Kowalski stay at Elysian
Fields, a run down two-story accommodation. Blanche is
surprised at the way of life. Here, Stella seems to have
pushed away from her upper-class background and found
happiness in a Polish man from a working- class background.
Blanche begins to dislike Stanley from the beginning. Later
she tells her sister why she left Laurel and her teaching
job. In an attempt to minimize her sister's criticism,
Blanche quickly explains how she tried to defend everything
they had.
Stanley?s work requires him to be constantly on the move.
This leads Blanche, to think of Stella?s love for Stanley
as perplexing. Stella meanwhile tries to continually
persuade Stanley to be nice to Blanche. When Stanley sees
Blanche?s things he gets agitated and does not want to
pamper Blanche. He could not believe her stories of rich
suitors. Also, Stanley is curious to know what happened of
all the property Blanche?s family possessed at Belle Reve.
It was going to be the poker night for Stanley and his
friends and therefore some commotion. Stella takes Blanche
out for dinner. When they get back home, Blanche meets
Mitchel, Stanley?s friend. They have a light conversation
and Mitch is taken to Blanche. In the meanwhile Stanley
gets drunk and the rhumba music played aggravates him
further. In a drunken state he makes an assault on Stella.
Blanche is shocked by this behavior. His poker buddies try
sobering him down, showering him with some cold water. Then
he realizes he had hit Stella and runs out on the street
shouting out her name.

Blanche is again taken by surprise that Stella had returned
to her abusive husband. She urges Stella to leave Stanley
and plans an exit for them both. This irritates Stanley.
The fact that Blanche attempts to destroy his home, leads
him to become growingly antagonistic and unfriendly towards
her. He thus becomes resolute to expose Blanche's false
pretense. Stanley?s friend Shaw lends him information about
Blanche?s past. Shaw, who regularly traveled to
Mississippi, reported that Blanche had been seen at the
foul Flamingo Hotel. Blanche denies any association with
the place.

Blanche?s relationship with Mitch builds up with time.
About six months pass and Stanley?s behavior towards
Blanche worsens. The mistrust and suspicion that an
indifferent Stanley displays towards Blanche intensifies.
Stanley tells Stella of what he had discovered. Firstly, he
told her, after losing Belle Reve, Blanche turned to
prostitution while at the Flamingo Hotel. Further, she lost
her teaching position and was forced to resign as a result
of an illicit affair with a high school student. He
destroys the relationship between Mitch and Blanche too.
Blanche fears, Stanley has told Mitch about her past. She
tries to get in touch with Mitch but in vain.
Stella goes into labor and asks to be taken to hospital.
Another individual enters their home, leaving no place for
Blanche. Blanche?s mental condition worsens. Mitch
confronts her about her past and berates her. She accepts
the truth and confesses about her affair with the student.
When she asks him to marry her, he declines outright.
Later in the empty house, Blanche in a pathetic state
dresses up in a creased white satin gown and places a
rhinestone circlet on her head. She rattles off
conversations and talks to an imaginary set of people.
Stanley?s sudden entry alarms her. He confronts a half-
drunken Blanche who tells him she is waiting for a telegram
from an old lover, a millionaire named Shep Huntleigh who
has apparently invited her on a Caribbean cruise. Blanche
supposes that Huntleigh wilrespect her not raid her
privacy. She assumes that he will want a refined woman like
herself. Blanche also tells Stanley that Mitch had called
and begged for her forgiveness. Little did she know that
Stanley had met Mitch and knew that what she was rattling
off was all lies. By then, Stanley was smashed too. He
changes into his satin pajamas. In a last attempt to
ripping her off her dignity, he throws her onto the bed,
overpowering her and rips into her, robbing her of
her ?illusions? therefore? completing the humiliation.
Stella returns from the hospital with their baby. Blanche
tells her of what had happened. She faces a predicament of
whether she should stay with Stanley or move. But she
refuses to believe what Blanche has to tell her and chooses
to stay with Stanley. Stanley projects Blanche to all, as a
mentally ruined woman. They arrange for her to be sent to
an institution? to a place where her ?illusions? can be
kept unspoiled. Blanche still assumes that Shep Huntleigh
will come to take her far from the mess. But she is
surprised that instead, there is a doctor trying to take
her away. She at first resists. The doctor addresses
Blanche as Miss DuBois and she allows herself to be lead
away by the elderly doctor with a naïve expression
enveloping her.

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