To accept or reject a character, playwrights will use a range of mechanisms. The two terms accept and reject are very simplistic and can be easily defined. The terms "accept" meaning to receive, especially with gladness or approval and "reject", to refuse to accept, submit to, believe or make use of. A Streetcar Named Desire is the tragic story of a woman who is trapped in a world of fantasy afraid to face the reality of her own circumstances. The audience's feelings towards different characters can change from either accepting or rejecting its particular views and/or opinions. It can be seen in the play that the characters of Stanley and Blanche are both accepted at some points and rejected at others. Neither characters are rejected or accepted for the whole play but it is through the dramatic elements that we are able to come to this conclusion. Although the focus of the play is Blanche and Stanley, other characters also experience acceptance and rejection and cope with this in different ways.
             The character of Stella is one which the audience must approach with a sense of the unknown. She is Blanche's younger sister and has the same aristocratic heritage which is from her South West upbringing in Laurel. The character seems to expel a type of mild disposition which sets her apart from her otherwise more vulgar neighbours. However her character seems to be running away from her past just as Blanche does in the play leaving a common thread between herself and her sister. However Stella arrives in New Orleans when she was only a teenager again making us question the true meaning for her departure from such a privileged lifestyle to one where the character seems to submissive to her male partner. Stanley is Stella's one true love which she's is madly in love with and will do anything even betray her sister to satisfy this relationship. The relationship however is part founded on the most primitiv...