A Streetcar Named Desire

             In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams creates a complex web of conflicting emotions, which creates tension between characters. Williams presented many emotional conflicts with his character Stanley and the other characters in the play.
             In A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This play is about Blanche Dubois's visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister's brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley, and the reveling truth of why Blanche really came to visit her sister.
             Stanley Kowalski is a very barbaric person who always has to feel that no one is better than him. Stanley's brutality is shown in several places during the duration of A Streetcar Named Desire. For example, his first array of brutality is evident at the poker night when he gets angry and throws the radio out the window. Another example of his brutality is displayed when he beats his wife, Stella. Lastly, his arrogance and ferocious actions are most apparent when he rapes Blanche, while his wife is in labor in the hospital.
             Stanley Kowalski's first exhibition of his brutal actions occurs at poker night. Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley demands her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up and turns it off himself. When Stanley's friend, Mitch, drops out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the music being on, Stanley, in an enraged and drunken state, walks in the room and grabs the radio and throws it out the window. His friends immediately jump up, and then they drag him to the shower to try to sober him up. This is the first example of Stanley's rage emotional problems. During his entire rage during poker night he is not sober which leads to another problem. When he threw the radio out the window, he then immediately charged right at his wife,...

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