Eddy Diamantis -Streetcar Named Desire- Entry 2

Eddy Diamantis
AP Literature

Streetcar Named Desire- Entry 2

Reading scenes 3 to 6 revealed a lot of things about Blanche and her past, the relationship of Stanley and Stella and of the developing relationship between Blanche and Mitch. On the night that Blanche meets Mitch, she is obviously very flirtatious and begins to develop feelings for Mitch. However, Stanley had drunk too much at his poker game and became very violent towards Stella. Although Stella was shocked by the act, she of course went back to him after he famously shouted Stella’s name proving that Stella is a foolish and somewhat oblivious person to the fact that Stanley has a brutal and violent personality because she is so in love with him. However, in the next scene Blanche complains to Stella about her relationship with Stanley and takes for granted that she wants to leave her home which angers Stella deeply and demands that she stops. In response to her, Blanche uses a man she had apparently met in Miami named Shep Huntleigh as an answer to her economic troubles and as a way out of New Orleans but it is not clear if she is close with this man or if she has any other relations with him making this relationship very suspicious. It has become clear that as the book progresses, Blanche has a very superior attitude o not just her sister but to everyone around her and Stella really is doing nothing about it and the only person that is really standing in her way is Stanley.
In Scene 6, while on her date with Mitch, she invites him in afterwards for a drink (Blanche continues to drink all of Stanley’s alcohol!). Blanche then reveals to Mitch that in her previous marriage she had walked in on her lover having an affair with another man. While she was dancing to the varsouviana she had became very drunk and shouted at her lover about his incident with another man and her lover was so shocked he had ran out and killed himself. This moment in Blanches life strongly affects her and the events that happen to her like her relationship with Mitch. Also in scene five, I did not understand what was the point of the boy from the evening star?