Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A Streetcar Named Desire: Stanley
- Characteristics
- Domineering and Posessive
- Animalistic physical vigor
- Blanche: "he acts
like an animal,
has an animals
habits!" "bearing
the raw meat
home from the
kill in the jungle"
- "animal joy in his being is implicit"
- Contrast between drunk
aggression and sober
loving husband
- Reactions
- Blanche see's Stanley as a contender/force to be reckoned with
- Stella "thrilled" by outburst of violent foreplay
"I was-sort of-thrilled by it"
- Symbols
- Bringing home meat from butcher
- Poker and bowling pleasures
- Clothing is loud and gaudy
- Language is rough and crude
- Goals
- Antagonist: set against
Blanche/responsible for her
descend into insanity
- Remain strongest in the survival of the fittest"
- Representation
- New,
heterogeneous
America-sees
himself as a social
reveler
- Gender Roles
- Domineering male of the household
- Stanley believes women
are homemakers
- Relationships
- Physical/sexual relationship with Stella
- Sex: way of keeping close
and righting each others
wrongs
- Blanche
- Threat to Stanley -unwelcomed
presence in household
- Acts as a disruptive force in his
ordered household/lifestyle
- Intense hatred
motivated by her
aristocratic past