In the Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois's visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister's brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the reveling truth of why Blanche really came. Stanley Kowalski is a very brutal and barbaric person who always has to feel that no one is better than him. ... Stanley Kowalski's first exhibition of ...

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Stanley Kowalski mentions the Napoleonic Code of Law in attempt to sound smart and ahead in the game. ... Stella Kowalski plays the traditional role of a wife of the late 1940s. ... She left her sister Blanche behind and married the infamous character Stanley Kowalski. ... His abusive words and hands seem of no big deal in the Kowalski household. ... His father was an abusive figure in his life similar to the character Stanley Kowalski and his sister placed in a mental institution similar to Blanche DuBois. ...

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Conversely, Stanley Kowalski, Blanche's brother-in-law, is a very realistic person who seeks truth. ... Williams demonstrates this theme of reality versus fantasy through Stanley's success in finding the truth in Blanche's fictional world, the use of light symbolizing the truth that Blanche is afraid of, and the use of the setting of the Kowalski's apartment to represent the vulnerability of the interior to the exterior of the real world. ... Another representation of the vulnerability of fantasy to reality is demonstrated through the Kowalski's apartment. ... Whil...

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The poker is a symbol for the game of life, and Stanley is the triumphant victor. ... Stanley's masculinity, virility and boisterous nature, is thus vividly depicted. ... This event is a mirror image of the poker night, when Stella is hit by Stanley and runs upstairs, with Stanley later on roaring for her to come back. ... The young collector, who comes to the Kowalski's door to collect for the newspaper when Blanche is home alone, embodies Blanche's obsession with youth and reminds her of her teenage husband. ... Stanley is represented by the drunkard and Blanche by the prostit...

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