The Relationship between Stella and Stanley in Scene 4 of 'A Streetcar Named Desire'.
Look at scene IV of 'Streetcar ' What does the scene tell us about the relationship between Stella and Stanley, and how does Williams portray this?
In order to analyse this scene, there needs to be a clear understanding of what has happened prier to it.
Scene three is set at Stanley 's poker game, when Mitch leaves the game, to chat to Blanche, Stanley becomes more and more annoyed, and smashes a radio. Stella yells at him, and he starts to beat her. The men pull him off. Blanche takes Stella and some clothes to Eunice 's apartment upstairs. Stanley goes limp and seems confused, but when the men try to force him into the shower to sober him up he fights them off. They grab their winnings and leave.
Stanley stumbles out of the bathroom, calling for Stella. He phones upstairs, then phones again, before hurling the phone to the floor. Half-dressed he stumbles out to the street and calls for her again and again: "STELL-LAHHHHH!" Eunice gives him a piece of her mind, but to no avail. Finally, Stella slips out of the apartment and down to where Stanley is. They stare at each other and then rush together with "animal moans." He falls to his knees, caresses her face and belly, then lifts her up and carries her into their flat.
Scene four occurs early the next morning, Stella lies serenely in the bedroom, her face aglow. She is described as having a "narcotised tranquillity that is in the faces of Eastern idols". Colour and light are huge themes here, Stella holds "coloured comics" there are "Gaudy pyjamas" on the floor and "summer brilliance" in the window. The colours theme within the play, is Williams 's way of telling us that the romance in Stella and Stanley 's relationship is pushed in favour of the couples sexual relations. This being 1949, Williams cannot express this outright.
Blanche, who has not slept, enters the apartment the complete opposite of Stella 's serenity. She is worried and demands to know how Stella could go back and spend the night with
In order to analyse this scene, there needs to be a clear understanding of what has happened prier to it.
Scene three is set at Stanley 's poker game, when Mitch leaves the game, to chat to Blanche, Stanley becomes more and more annoyed, and smashes a radio. Stella yells at him, and he starts to beat her. The men pull him off. Blanche takes Stella and some clothes to Eunice 's apartment upstairs. Stanley goes limp and seems confused, but when the men try to force him into the shower to sober him up he fights them off. They grab their winnings and leave.
Stanley stumbles out of the bathroom, calling for Stella. He phones upstairs, then phones again, before hurling the phone to the floor. Half-dressed he stumbles out to the street and calls for her again and again: "STELL-LAHHHHH!" Eunice gives him a piece of her mind, but to no avail. Finally, Stella slips out of the apartment and down to where Stanley is. They stare at each other and then rush together with "animal moans." He falls to his knees, caresses her face and belly, then lifts her up and carries her into their flat.
Scene four occurs early the next morning, Stella lies serenely in the bedroom, her face aglow. She is described as having a "narcotised tranquillity that is in the faces of Eastern idols". Colour and light are huge themes here, Stella holds "coloured comics" there are "Gaudy pyjamas" on the floor and "summer brilliance" in the window. The colours theme within the play, is Williams 's way of telling us that the romance in Stella and Stanley 's relationship is pushed in favour of the couples sexual relations. This being 1949, Williams cannot express this outright.
Blanche, who has not slept, enters the apartment the complete opposite of Stella 's serenity. She is worried and demands to know how Stella could go back and spend the night with