A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche or Stella? Blanche or Stella? A question being tossed around in classrooms in Eastport lately. Tennessee Williams, in A Streetcar Named Desire, creates two sisters who each clearly portray a stereotype. Stella, the sister in distress, perhaps the more reserved and meek of the two, is in a marriage with a very guyish-guy and she probably has no way out. Enter Blanche, right from the traditional Southern past, to attempt …

…total stereotype as Blanche and Stella are. Drawing a line between speaking up and keeping quiet on a matter is a completely gray area, relative to the person and the given situation. But the art of knowing where to find and when to draw that line is to understand what can and should be rectified, and what things in life are constant and truly are-not just a jaded justification-meant to be left as it is.