Blanche And Stanley Character Analysis

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Blanche and Stanley are two very impulsive and outspoken characters in A Streetcar Named Desire. Each of these characters mold to the personalities of those they are surrounded with and want to show they are best at what they want to be seen as.

Blanche Dubois leads people, specifically men, to believe that she is a classy, seductive, delicate woman. Although she is able to portray this personality for a short period of time, eventually the lustrous, deceiving, dependent side of her is found out and therefore forced out of her due to her drinking habits which tend to "loosen her up"; or she displays it herself. The first person Blanche attempts to blind is her sister. She becomes charismatic and welcoming when she first sees Stella. When she comes in town she tells Stella about the …show more content…
To Stella, at first, Stanley is loving and caring. Everything he needs to be to gain her trust. With her trust he can start to get comfortable and feel secure that Stella wont leave him. In front of other people, like Blanche, Stanley wants to be viewed as the ideal husband that always keeps his wife happy. But this proves faulty and then completely untrue later.
Stanley is the more assertive one of his group of friends. He likes to declare his dominance by showing how much use he can get out of Stella. To his friends, hes friendly and easy to get along with but when hes drunk his aggression comes out.
Stanley acts like hes full of confidence in front of Blanche so she knows hes in charge, and he does so successfully by instilling fear in Blanche. He intimidates her with repeating questions and an assertive tone.
Stanley and Stella are two sensitive characters that are also passive aggressive. Blanche lies on the spot and Stanley analyzes everything going on. He doesn't miss a detail, and Blanche tries to fill every detail she can. Careful wording can change the whole meaning and basis of a
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