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Stanley Kowalski is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. In the play [ edit ] Stanley lives in the working-class Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans with his wife, Stella ( née DuBois), and is employed as a factory parts salesman .
Stanley represents the new, heterogeneous America to which Blanche doesn’t belong, because she is a relic from a defunct social hierarchy. He sees himself as a social leveler, as he tells Stella in Scene Eight.
After the loss of her family home to creditors, Blanche DuBois travels from Laurel, Mississippi, to the New Orleans French Quarter to live with her younger married sister, Stella, and Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski. She is in her thirties and, with no money, has nowhere else to go.
Character Analysis Stanley Kowalski. Stanley Kowalski lives in a basic, fundamental world which allows for no subtleties and no refinements. He is the man who likes to lay his cards on the table. He can understand no relationship between man and woman except a sexual one, where he sees the man's role as giving and taking pleasure from this ...
INTRODUCTION. Stanley Kowalski is a representation of New America - an America that was born after World War. Stanley, having fought in the Second World War, as. “a Master Sergeant in the Engineers' Corps”, is now a part of the working class in New Orleans. He represents the American Dream of freedom and opportunity for all.
He wears lurid colors and parades his physicality, stripping off sweaty shirts and smashing objects throughout the play. His extreme virility is a direct contrast to Blanche’s homosexual husband who committed suicide. Stanley loves Stella ––she is the soft, feminine foil to his violent ways.
Stanley has just told Blanche the story of going out with a woman who claimed to be the “glamorous type,” to which Stanley replied, “So what?” He makes clear that he is not interested in women who need to be complimented about their looks, something that Blanche needs very much.
