A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
...n” and knows that Blanche believes that her sister is too good for him. In Scene four, Blanche tells Stella “It’s just this. This is how I look at it. A man like that is someone to go out with once-twice- three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a child by?” Blanche tells Stella this because in the previous scene Stanley hit Stella and she goes back to their apartment and sleeps with him which bewilders Blanche. Stella tells Blanche “But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark- that sort of make everything else seem – unimportant.” Blanche tries to make her sister see that she has been blinded by Stanley’s sex appeal “What you are talking about is brutal desire just- desire!” Stanley’s desire to hold power over everyone makes him rape Blanche while Stella is in the hospital giving birth to their child. He rapes Blanche to show her that he can have whatever he wants. Stanley tells Blanche just before he rapes her “We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning”. This is the major cause which drives Blanche over the edge which makes her go to the insane asylum. Blanche tells Stella that Stanley raped her but Stella wants to believe it isn’t true but in reality she knows that Stanley did rape Blanche. In Scene eleven, Stella tells Eunice “I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley.” Although Stanley does not crumble himself, the ...