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In Tennessee Williams, A Street Car Named Desire, Blanche DuBois is in a fight for the role of prey or predator. Blanche is visiting her sister, Stella, who is married to Stanley Kowalski in New Orleans. They live on the street of Elysian Fields. Blanche has many sides to her personality. When we first meet she seems to be a high-strung, but a socially refined woman. As the plot unfolds, we find that her past is revealing a total different woman. Stanley is certain to get to the bottom of the true Blanche DeBuis. In the opening scene when Blanche first arrives she seems to portray the role of the prey. She is walking down the street of Elysian Fields carrying a bag with her. She looks out of place in this section of town; Blanche is dressed as if she is heading to the Garden District for tea. Blanche is the kind of person that is unable to view the common person without eyes of disapproval. In this area of town a woman that is carrying her self in this manner is defiantly not the predator of the neighbor hood, but more the prey. Later in the first scene Blanche meets up with Stella. Here she seems to show her prey-like form. She tells Stella how their family plantation, Belle Reve, has been l
ost for tax purposes. Blanche seems to blame Stella for leaving her with the burden of keeping up with the family plantation. With Stella's help, Blanche believes they would never have lost Belle Reve. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blanche DeBois is the most complicated characters in the play. Her constantly over laying role of predator and prey is very apparent throughout the entire play of A Street Car Named Desire. Her battle with Stanley for the true predator is apparent. Even till the end of the play when she taken away to the hospital she lies to make herself to try to conceal the truth. The overall true predator in this play is Blanche because of her the lying throughout the play. Stanley is merely the detective that uses whatever means is necessary to get to the truth of what Blanche is really saying in the play. When Blanche meets Stanley for the first time he questions Blanche of how the plantation is actually lost. He suspects that Blanche has just sold it off to buy furs, jewelry, and expensive dresses. This sets up the sort of questioning that Stanley keeps with throughout. Stanley doesn't believe Blanch so he Tears through her bag looking for the papers for the sale of the property. Stanley instead finds letters from Blanche's late husband Allen. This gives a sort of sad feeling toward Blanche for her loss. When she presents Stanley with the papers for the sale of
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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