A Streetcar Named Desire: Emphasis on the Contrast Between the Masculine and Feminine

animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's something even sub-human-something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape-like about him.....Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is - Stanley Kowalski - survivor of the stone age!...And you - you here - waiting for him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet!" (Williams, 188) At the very opposite pole, Blanche Dubois is an extremely sensitive woman, frail and helpless, living in a dream world of her own creation. She has the romantic propensity to look for an escape from the harsh, inflexible reality. Blanche, as her name indicates, seems to live in the transparent world of illusions. She is obviously unable to accept reality in its common form, and she tries to evade it by all kinds of small tricks: she tells lies, she drinks alcohol,
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