Stella is Blanche's younger sister, about twenty-five years old and of a mild disposition that visibly sets her apart from her more vulgar neighbors. In New Orleans Stella married the lower-class Stanley, with whom she shares a robust sexual relationship. Stella's union with Stanley is both animal and spiritual, violent but renewing. After Blanche's arrival, Stella is torn between staying devoted to her sister and standing by the side of her husband. Eventually, she stands by Stanley, perhaps in part because she gives birth to his child near the play's end. While she loves and pities Blanche, she cannot bring herself to believe Blanche's accusations that Stanley dislikes her; she eventually dismisses Blanche's claim that Stanley raped her, which is the complete truth. Stella's denial of reality at the play's end shows that she has more in common with her sister than she thinks. During the play Stella fled from the room after being smacked by Stanley, for her it was a regular occurrence she knew that she had stepped out of line when she was talking to Stanley, Stella had seen the smack coming. But for Blanche it was something new to see, she had never been struck by a man, had never seen a woman being struck by a man and couldn't
Stella's alteration begins when Stanley comes to her after he learns of Blanche's reputation from the hotel Flamingo when she used to live at Belle Reve. At first, Stella did accredit everything that her sister told her because they're family but it was hard to trust her sisters word over her husbands. Stanley goes on to ask Blanche one day when Stella is absent if she knew a man by the name of Shaw, and she replies by saying, "Why everyone knows somebody named Shaw!" in attempt to get the subject changed. He continues to ask her if she knew about a place called the Flamingo and she denies knowledge of knowing so, but in fact does. When Stella returns to the room after conveniently missing the conversation she asks Stanley for a kiss and he tells her not in front of her sister. From that moment on Stanley showed harsh feelings toward Blanche and that was confusing for Stella. It was because he had known her for only a short time and still could see the exact type of person that Blanche was, but, she had a curtain over Stella's eyes by manipulating her and using things from their past to make the curtain cleaner than it actually was.
understand why this man had struck her sister. The question thou
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