Olivia Shaw Essay -- English Literature

Plot and Sub-PlotA trolley Named bank========================The main plot in A Streetcar Named Desire is all based almost thecharacter Blanche DuBois and the never-ending downfall of her life.The swordplay opens with Blanche arriving in smart Orleans where she has cometo find and stay with her sister Stella. Stella lives in an apartmentwith her controlling economise Stanley, when Blanche sees the apartmentwhich she stays she cannot weigh her sister lives in such a spotlight.Blanche and Stella greet each with resentment but before long Blanchebecomes irritable. Blanche has bad news and tells Stella she has mazedtheyre old home Belle Reve Blanche says to Stella its her faultand her leaving was the reason they lost their home. This gets Stellaupset so she goes to the bathroom. While she is there Stanley comeshome, he gives Blanche a impolite stare and they have an awkwardconversation, we find out Blanche had a husband who died when theywere both very young. Stanley is commo n and rough compared to Blanchewho is delicate. Stanley is a very knowledgeable man and sex is part of whatmakes him tick. His appraisal of women is frank and straightforward.It becomes obvious that the informal bond between Stanley and Stella isintense, and that this is what keeps their relationship going. Stellatells Stanley nearly the loss of Belle Reve and Stanley thinksBlanche has profited from this and goes through with(predicate) her things. WhenStanley routes through the letters her husband had written this makesBlanche angry and also brings back memories of her past. That nightStanley has his friends round for a poker game and this is whereBlanche first meets Mitch they talk about things they have in commonand she tells him she is ... ...l genes to a play. A play shouldbe about angiotensin-converting enzyme character, in A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee utilizeBlanche, the tragic heroin the protagonist he based his play aroundBlanches character. A play should be set in one place Tennessee usedNew Orleans, with the play begin set in one place this increased thetension, be more intense so more confrontations would occur if therewas no where else to escape to. For Blanches character New Orleansbecomes a trap. Aristotle also said A play should be set over a 24hrperiod Tennessee didnt use this ingredient in his play because weneeded time for Stellas pregnancy to civilize and cause more conflict.We needed to see Blanche and Mitchs relationship give and unfold.Also Blanches mental state needed time to deteriorate so we wouldntfeel so shocked when she was taken away by the nurse and doctor.