Tessy Diaz Streetcar Named Desire

Journal Entry 2 (A Street Car Named Desire)

The unhappiness In Stella and Stanley’s relationship reveals itself when Stanley hosts a drunken poker game with his male friends at the apartment. Blanche gets under Stanley’s skin when she starts to win the affection of his close friend Mitch. Stanley has a very animalistic personality, and this shows when he storms into the bedroom, and throws the radio out of the window. And then when Stella yells at Stanley in defense, Stanley beats her. As I read this part I wondered why Stella would be with a man that would hit her, and act completly like a ravenous animal. This told me that Stella has to be very much in love with him, and must see that Stanley's good qualties outweigh his bad ones. As for me I would never be married to a man that was violent and abusive.

In scene seven you finally find out the truth and all of Blanches lies reveal themselves. It is the afternoon of Blanches birthday, and Stanley comes in and reveals to Stella that he knows all about Blanches past. You find out that after losing Belle Reve Blanche moved into a motel which she was eventually evicted from because of her numerous sexual liasions. Also she was never told to take a break for a while from teaching becasue of her "nerves" , she was fired from her job as a schoolteacher because the principal discovered that she was having an affair witha teenage student. As I read this part, I connected the scene when Blanche kisses the teenage boy that comes by to collect money for the newspaper. Blanche seems like the type of person to do just about anything to get money.

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When I finished the drama, I felt really bad for Blanche even though she pretty much lied about everything from the very beginning. I believe that people do and become certain things, whether they are bad or good based off of their life experiences and what they had been through. Blanche was probaly not always the way that she was, but she became that way because of the suicide of her first husband, obviously it was still something that she thought about everyday, because she would always hear the "poker music". Blanche was a very messed up person, and when Stanley raped her, that probably did not help matters. At the end of the drama Blanche is expecting her rich friend to come pick her up, but really a doctor arrives with a nurse to come pick up Blanche and take her to a mental faciility, Blanche initially panics and struggles againist them when they try to take her away. But the doctor approaches Blanche is more of gentle manner and convinces her to leave with him. She allows him to lead her away and does not look back and say goodbye as she goes. I think that this shows that, Blanche is finally not lieing to herself , and accepting that she needs help, and is not fighting it anymore.
As for Mitch I think he really loved Blanche and cared for her. This was shown when he cried as the doctor took her away. And if Balnche had told Mitch the truth from the beginning of there realtionship things would have been very different. I think he would be a little troubled by it at first, but in the end might accept her past and might be able to move on and look to the future. However that is not what happened and the end result of the drama showed me that.
- Tessy Diaz