A Streetcar Named Desire - How Stella Changes

             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 understand why this man had struck her sister. The question though was, why had Stella run? Was it because her sister was present and she was ashamed of the relationship that she had with her husband? Or was it because she was sick of being smacked around by her husband? The reason didn't seem to matter the next morning when Stella was back and acting as though nothing had happened between her and her tyrant husband the previous night. Blanche and Stella had a perplex relationship, Stella was often torn between the allegiance to her husband and the devotion to her sister. It was often the devotion that she chose, when Stanley began to figure Blanche out was when the alternation of Stella's devotion ...

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