Here they are used to reinforce the idea that Blanche is attempting symbolically to seduce Stanley. She is so open about it that Stanley says, "If I didn't know that you was my wife's sister I'd get ideas about you. Blanche's attempt to flirt with Stanley is her only known way of achieving success with men.
She tries to use her charms. Actually, she wants Stanley to admire her and willingly commits a breach of decorum when she attempts this symbolic seduction.
This second scene presents the second encounter between the Stanley and Blanche worlds. Here even Blanche recognizes that Stanley's world is destructive to people like her. She says of her husband: "I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt me, but you can't.
Blanche also recognizes the difference between the two worlds when she presents Stanley the collected papers of Belle Reve and thinks that it is fitting their papers for the aristocratic home should now be in his brutal hands.
At the end of the encounter, it is Blanche who is left trembling and shaken by the encounter. Previous Scene 1. Next Scene 3. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. Summary and Analysis Scene 2. He is also a gentleman and is unfailingly polite to the women of the house.
His attention can be captured by dainty talking and general frivolous behaviour unlike Stanley. Mitch is also more considerate towards women in general- this is evident through his behaviour and his remark that gambling should not happen in a house where there are women. What does it suggest about Blanche that she has this routine completely memorized? It is evident that this routine is memorized because we see her lying to both Stanley and Mitch in the same manner and then deciding the future course based on their compliments or non-compliments.
The sequence of flirting is thus prefixed. Why is it so necessary to Blanche that the light be covered with a paper lantern? This is for many reasons. First, she is hyper conscious of her withering looks and too much light would only worsen her appearance by making her flaws evident.
Second, symbolically, abundance of light increases the visibility of the subject. Blanche does not want much attention to some aspects of herself as it makes her feel like her past is under scrutiny and her reality can be revealed. In your opinion, do you think this violent scene between Stella and Stanley would have occurred if Blanche were not visiting?
This fury is what made Stanley hit Stella. Stella would probably not have fuelled his temper on her own in absence of Blanche. Thus, this particular violent scene would not have occurred if Blanche had not been visiting.
How do we know this? Their relationship is based on raw and simple attraction and desire towards each other.
Even if there are violent episodes, self-respect or dignity or even self-preservation does not restrain Stella from going back to Stanley. The power balance in the relationship tilts in favour of Stanley. He does not even apologize for his violent behaviour but rather demands Stella back as if she were a good he possessed. Their reunion is also very animalistic in that there is a direct show of emotions but no words to accompany it. This shows that their relationship is based on desire rather than love.
The instructions which were given to Blanche in the starting of the are symbolic of the journey of life and as well as what Blanche needs to do to go to the other side of the life, there are three symbols, which also tells us that Blanche needs to take her desire which is both sexual and other desires and take them to the graves in the cemeteries so that she can be relieved of them and go to the afterlife on the elysian fields.
But Stella left Auriol to make a family and stay happy whereas Blanche stayed back and kept fighting for it and had very bad experiences with men and thus after coming to New Orleans and seeing Stella having a very happy life, which did to an extent upset her, and when she was telling stella about losing Belle Reve she was mostly trying to tell Stella how she was never with her and had left but she stayed and kept on fighting and was mostly seen as accusing Stella as a reason why Belle Reve was lost.
He tells us that Blanche grew up in an upper class family in Laurel and also that her sister had left home in summer after her father died. Scene one: 1. Desire is eagerness to possess. Blanche has desire to be loved, to look young and to meet somebody who could really love her like Mitch so that she would forget about her ex-husband.
However, the desire to look good to every men she encounters, and thinking that having sexual love can feel up her emptiness leads her to destruction equals to death cemeteries. But at the end of the play even the hope she had in Elysian Fields is lost. First death is the death of her physical body because she was rejected by people in her town and second death is the death of her mentality when Stella sends her to mental hospital.
Blanche and Stella belong to higher hierarchy of the society compared to Stanley. But as the play proceeds, there is a confusion in the hierarchy because with the loss of the Belle Reve, what used to define them is now gone. Further, with Stanley having higher position in the house there is a conflict created between Blanche wishing to maintain her high social position, with Stanley who looks down upon it.
The conflict between these two characters contributes to the rape, which proves Stanley to be in higher position. Blanche is resentful towards Stella because Stella is not living up to the standard Blanche expected her to be.
She goes to the stage where she has a relation with one of her student. Blanche and Stella are from Southern part of America. They were brought up in a mansion, they were taught of proper manners and etiquettes; all that were considered genteel and proper. Stanley Kowalski is not native from the land; he is an immigrant from Poland. He is straight forward, and animalistic because what he does all his life is to satisfy his physical desires.
Blanche is made to look back at the past constantly admiring how beautiful her life was in Belle Reve, and regretting her life at present. Scene two 1. Her bathing signifies washing away her past.
It could also mean cleansing her physical and mental state that was defiled through sexual relations with so many people. Stanley believes that if Stella had a share in Belle Reve, it belongs to him as well. And the fact that it was lost, makes him feel that his property is gone. It shows Stanley is possessive of not only Stella but her property as well. Like most of fierce male animals do, he has to possess everything that belongs to her.
It shows he is gregarious. He knows someone from merchandise, from jewelry store and a lawyer who, according to him, would be willing to do a small favour for him.
It also shows that Stanley is suspecting Blanche would be hiding something. To get some information out of her, he threatens her with these statements. He things Blanche is lying to him. He is indirectly telling Blanche that she cannot distort any truth from him. His princess charming must be Stella. Everyone, the members of the household started to pass away. The long parade to the graveyard! Father, mother! Margaret, that dreadful way!
Money has to be spent for their funeral, and various taxes like death duty and inheritance text contemporary allusion. Belle Reve was his headquarters! Act 1, sci. As the play starts,we are introduced to the three symbols desire,cemetries and Elysian Fields. Desire, symbolizes Blanches, desire to be loved after the death of her ex-husband-Allan, look young and to get compliments and also is desperate for blissful companionship like Mitch.
On contrary,this promiscuos lifestyle of Blanche got her into trouble which refers to cemeteries -a direct symbol to death. She was banned from Auriol for having a sexual relation with her student. The last symbol Elysian Fields is a mythological allusion in Roman mythology. It is the street where Stella and Stanley live. Stella and Blanche are from an upper class upbringing, unlike Stanley who belonged to a lower class of the society.
Hence two social hierachies are established in the play. Blanche shows resentment towards Stella for leaving Belle Reve and living in New Orleans while Blanche stayed in Auriol and beared the loss of her family and house,thus experiencing it all alone. Blanche also believes Stella as reason for the loss of Belle Reve,however Stella reacts to it feebly and ends up crying in the bathroom. Tennesee reveals that Blanche is a widow and was a high-school English teacher and is from a high-class upbringing.
Her financial state is also not good and Blanche faced numerous difficulties in losing Belle Reve. The Dubois world and Kowalski world are two different ends. The Dubois world stresses on social stature, and considered to be refined and plesant. Outer apperances are given more importance than realities.
Whereas,on the other hand,the Kowalski world gives importance to realites of a person and is considered to be open about their feelings and thoughts and coarse in nature like Stanley ,unlike Blanche Dubois who maintains a genteel social profile. It also means "a beautiful dream" in French. The word is also grammaticaly wrong which suggests a flaw in her beautiful dream the blissful dream regarding past and everything is not what appears to be.
Scene Three 1. Mitch is more genteel and less animalistic compared to other men at the poker game. I oughta go home pretty soon..
I gotta sick mother. He cares for his mother who is sick and would be waiting for him and he is willing to let go a poker game for her. She throws statement of the situation surrounding them, asks for a cigarette, and continues conversation about trivialities including her name, profession..
She does not give a chance for an awkward pause and keeps conversation going. She has the set of rules for ideal beauty; slim body, pretty face, young look…etc. To make sure a man falls in love with her, she wants to look young.
She does not want her age to be discovered. She does not want men to notice her wrinkles. There has to be a cover, a cover of illusion which distorts the reality. This would have happened. The violent scene happened due to animalistic nature of Stanley and partially Stella , and nothing to do with Blanche.
Stanley was drunk, and he was getting mad that loud radio was disturbing their game. When Stella shouted at Stanley and stops the game, he loses his temper. The anger is not triggered by Blanche what so ever.
But she could be held responsible for keep turning on the radio. Hence, the major responsibility falls on Stanley, and violent scene would have happened if there was anyone else visiting the place and accidently angered him. But Blanche cannot be exempted from her part she played by unnecessarily arousing him to anger. As a man, Stanley feels that what Stella has belongs to him. Blanche takes the first of many baths in this scene.
She claims that steaming hot baths are necessary to calm her nerves, a believable excuse given her constant hysteria. Her bathing foreshadows the eventual revelation of her sordid past. She desires to rid herself of her social blemishes and start over after leaving Laurel.
Two mysteries from Scene One are solved in Scene Two. Ace your assignments with our guide to A Streetcar Named Desire! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. What happened to Belle Reve, the DuBois family home? Why did Blanche come to New Orleans? Why does Mitch reject Blanche? Who is Shep Huntleigh?
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