The ending in Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire in which Blanche DuBois' sister Stella Kowalski leads her off to a mental hospital by a matron and a kind-hearted doctor was indeed inevitable. ... It always stops after that " (Williams 114). ... It was evident in the beginning of the play when they first meet that Stanley and Blanche would not get along when the audience finds out that Stanley "sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications " (Williams 29). ... Stanley exploits Blanche's past throughout the play that slowly slips her to lunacy. ... From ...

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Stella is being forced to play intermediary of the two sides as kin to the old South and wife to the new South. ... Tennessee Williams has a flair for writing about reality clashing with fantasy in some of his plays. ... Williams throughout Streetcar creates constant conflict between Blanche and either Stanley, Mitch, or Stella. The audience of the play, however, is presented with polar views of the drama (Kernan 17) from the "realistic" view of Stanley and the "non-realistic" view of his sister-in-law, Blanche. ...

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