Rape scene

• “No one entirely gains sympathy or ‘wins’ until the final two scenes” 


  Francis Gilbert
• “There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people” 


  Williams
• Stanley is "pushed to the end of his tether by Blanche’s unbalanced and neurotic antics”
•  “The rape was as much Blanche ‘s fault as Kowalski’s”
• Streetcar 'shows us normality is terrifying” 


  Francis Gilbert
• Even from Scene 1, "it seems clear that some awful confrontation is going to occur”


  Francis Gilbert
• Stanley's 'gruesome boast' that they've had this date since the beginning is a 'neat comment on the way Williams has structured the play' 


  David Kinder