streetcar named desire critics

• Skiba M


  "At first glance Blanche seems superficial, on account of the importance she attributes to her looks and former social status, however, her behavior is symptomatic fo society itself"
• Williams


  "I write about the south because I think the war between romanticism and hostility is sharp"
• Williams


  "I think her natural passivity is one of the things that makes her acceptence of Stanley acceptable. She naturally 'gives in', accepts, lets things slide, she does not make much of an effort"
• Bloom


  "Like many battered women, Stella is genuinely in love with her husband. She puts up with his abuse because she doesn't want to lose him, and because she feels helpless to change the way he treets her"
• pagan


  "Williams has repeatedly claimed, 'I am Blanche Dubois' and has identified with her, particularly in terms of a shared hysteria. Also like Blanche, Williams had a tendency to lie. One example of this is Williams's and Blanche's shared propensity to mislead people concerning their age"
• Galloway


  Blanche 'has her own desires, that draw her to Stanley, like a moth to a light, a light she voids, even hates, yet yearns for'
• Williams


  "The play is about the ravishment of the tender, the sensitive, the delicate by teh savage and brutal forces of modern society."
• Hawkins


  'Stanley is an 'honest animal who needs no motivation for anything he does other than he wants to do it at that particular time'"
• Kronenberger


  Blanche is 'the most demonically driven kind of liar - the one who lies to the world because she must lie to herself'
• Chapman


  Blanche 'shuns the reality of what she is and takes gallant and desperate refuge in a magical life she has invented for herself'
• Bloom


  Stanley 'cannot be blamed for protecting his marriage against the force that would destroy it'
• Fang


  "That (Shep Huntleigh" never shows up and gives the substantial aid to Blanche may suggest that if women place their hope and fortune on men, their oppressed and subordinate status can never be changed"
• spector


  The 1947 performance 'left audiences feeling that a madwoman had entered an alien world and, after shaking that world, had been successfully exorcised'
• Duerre


  (Blanche) "attempts to maintain her past luxurious life by holding onto and creating new desires rather than adjusting to her reality"
• Fang


  "Sorrowfully, when Blanche is stuck in trouble, men are always the ones to whom she resorts"
• Costa


  "Williams play depicts a weak and unadjusted masculinity"
• Lart


  "Stanley is an agent of Blanche's destruction"
• Onyett


  Blanche has become a social outcast because she refuses to conform to conventional moral values
• Onyett


  Stanley strips Blanche of her psychological, sexual and cultural identity
• Thomson


  "the play's romance is wholly illusory; her descent however is not"
• Quirino


  The master of games in Streetcar is Stanley Kowalksi