6/23/2023 0 Comments A streetcar named desire goodreads![]() ![]() Stella is drawn to Stanley’s brute, animal sexuality, and he is drawn to her traditional, domestic, feminine sexuality. Stella’s desire for Stanley pulls her away from Belle Reve and her past. To Blanche, perhaps motivated by her discovery that her first husband was in fact homosexual, losing her desirability is akin to losing her identity and her reason to live. ![]() Blanche clings to her sexuality more and more desperately as the play progresses. Blanche dresses provocatively in red satin, silks, costume jewelry, etc: she calls attention to her body and her femininity through her carefully cultivated appearance. When Blanche meets Stanley’s poker-playing friends, she lights upon Mitch as a possible suitor and adopts the guise of a chaste lover for him to pursue.īlanche nearly attacks the Young Man with her aggressive sexuality, flirting heavily with him and kissing him. Blanche tells Stella that she and Stanley smoothed things over when she began to flirt with him. Her interactions with men always begin with flirtation. Much of Blanche’s conception of how she operates in the world relies on her perception of herself as an object of male sexual desire. ![]() The power of sexual desire is the engine propelling A Streetcar Named Desire: all of the characters are driven by “that rattle-trap street-car” in various ways. Many critics believe that Williams invented the idea of desire for the 20th century. ![]()
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