Response to number 2 for A Streetcar Named Desire

Blanche keeps herself very clean and she sets herself very high compared to other people. She tries to be very proper with herself and what she says. Blanche is nice to people unless they are rude to her. Stanley is a very stubborn, and has a very strong personality. Stanley thinks of no one being above him and that he is the one who has all control because with Stella he does control her. Stanley and Blanche are opposites of each other and that's why they get into a lot of arguments and conflicts with one another. In this play I don't think neither Blanche nor Stanley is a "hero" or a "villain" in traditional senses, because one isn't after the other and trying to make it better and stop them. But i guess in a way Blanche is a "hero" because she is trying to save her sister from a mess of life with her husband, but she is not a "hero" because she didn't succeed. Stanley isn't a traditional "villain," he is just a really bad, disgusting guy. He does take away from Stella and her sister and break them down to their weakest times in their lives but he's not taking from the whole world. I sympathize Blanche the most because she is trying to help her sister and she's trying to have a better life with her sister but it's actually worse than what it was before. I can also admire her for standing up to herself when she tells Mitch to leave, because to me she is trying to be strong and stop the cycles of men in her life. I also sympathize Stanley because I think he has been through traumatic experiences so that's why he is the way he is. I know people get traumatized but they can get help for it. Stanley's past effects Blanche's future and it sucks. When Blanche tells Mitch the truth and he tells Stanley and he uses against Blanche to his advantage shows their faults in this play.

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