A Streetcar Named Desire

In life, there are no winners or losers...just different ways of playing the game." As this famous quote says, there are no true winners in life. Therefore, in Warner Brothers' production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" no one won and everyone was met with some kind of downfall.

Throughout the movie, there was constant conflict between Blanche DuBois and all of the other character, and especially with Stanley. Blanche is a fading southern belle that has horrible anxiety problems and is an alcoholic, and these difficulties are too complicated for Stanley to understand. She attempts to move away from all of her troubles by moving in with Stanley and her sister Stella, but this almost is worse for her. While Blanche is staying with Stanley and Stella, she has a difficulty adjusting to a middle class way of life and is accused of theft and insanity on several occasions. She was very excited about a man named Mitch coming because this was the only positive event in the entire movie for her, until she realized that he came just because Stanley asked him to question her and make her confess. Filled with the thoughts of failure, thing only get worse for Blanche because in the climactic scene, she is raped by Stanley. This was her tragic downfall because no one could believe her, so she was considered insane and was sent to an asylum. With the obvious loss of everything important to Blanche and her dignity taken away from her, it is evident that she was not a winner.

While Blanche was off sleeping with men and living a first class life, Stella met Stanley and struggled to get by day by day. Stella left when everyone in her family died and tried to start a new life with the first change being Stanley. She was originally in love with him, she married him and they were having a child together, but this all took a turn for the worst. Stella was burdened by her insane sister, Blanche, and was the only one who understood her, so she was constantly defending her and a slave to her every need. This burden also caused her to argue and fight with Stanley to the point of him abusing her and her fearing him. She was blessed to have a healthy baby, but at the same time her husband raped her sister, and she could not ignore it. Stella lost not only her family to death and her sister to her battle with insanity, but she also lost her only love and the hope of being a happy family.

Even though it seems as if Stanley only got what he deserved, he was still a loser in the game of life. He was forced to allow Blanche live in his apartment, deal with all of her difficulties adjusting to their way of life, and constantly respond to her needs. This alone was a huge loss to his superiority because he no longer felt that he was "the king of his house" because whatever Blanche said went. Due to this, the stress of a new baby, and his alcoholism, he raped Blanche. Once he raped her, everything in his life shattered. He lost