broken up due to the desires of both Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.

However, Stella, Stanleys wife, also contributes to the unfaithfulness of her

husband. It is Stellas weak demeanor and complete difference in identity from

that of her sister, Blanche, that drives Stanley to commit an unfaithful act with

Blanche. No one person is to blame for the breakup of the DuBois/Kowalski

family. Blanche, Stella, and even Stanley played their own role is disrupting the

peace that was once shared among them.

Blanche desires what her sister has although it is not much. Stella has a

husband to care for her. A husband that loves her, that no one could question,

meaning that he is not gay. Stellas life is one that is settled and complete.

Blanche, on the other hand, has a life that is in turmoil. She arrives in New

Orleans a talkative, witty, arrogant, fragile, and eventually a crumbling figure.

Blanche once was married to and passionately in love with a tortured young

man. He killed himself after she discovered his homosexuality, and she has

om guilt and regret ever since. She wants a cultured man but is often

him that she refuses to see what is going on around her. She is so content in her

her part in the breakup. The hidden desires of Blanche and Stanley eventually

Stanley desires a woman who is cultured, who has seen the world and has

pregnant with their child. Stella is uncompromising in her forgiveness. Although

All three of the main characters in this play contribute to the breakup of

because of Stella she can not have him.

was no longer able to hide the fact that she was envious of her sister and it was

could not be bottled up any more, and that hurt the family most of all. Blanche

sorry, for that is the only way that she can accept the life that she is living in.

response to her marriage with a cultured, sensitive man which ended in disaster.

abused by her husband yet returns to him each time being completely forgiving.

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Approximate Word count = 782
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)