“A streetcar named desire” is a famous play of Tennessee Williams adapted to the cinema in 1951 by Elie Kazan with among others Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brandon, who respectively play the part of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalsky.
Blanche DuBois, arrives at her sister’s home in New Orleans hoping to start a new life after losing her husband, her property, her job and her reputation in her hometown of Laurel, Mississippi.
Stanley Kowalsky is Blanche’s brother-in-law. He belongs to the working class.
Because a relationship between characters, particularly between men and women, is one of the main and most important subjects in a movie, we decided today to talk about the complexity of Stanley and Blanche’s relationship.
With those 2 opposite characters, how is going to develop their relationship?
A relationship which is deteriorating… to reach a point of no return.

When Stanley and Blanche meet for the first time, Blanche is already in Stanley’s house whereas he comes back from work, but he doesn’t know that she was here. However, he doesn’t seem really surprised and start to talk with her, politely.
In her side, she’s quickly attracted physically to him. She takes a look on his body when he’s shirtless and considers him as/like a dominant and protective man for her. We can see this because when a cat meows and scares her, she looks after his protection. In the same time, Stanley takes advantage of this as he laughs at her imitating the meowing cat.

Whereas their relationship seems to get off to a good start, it is going to change rapidly when Stanley learns that Blanche lost her property. Indeed, he wants to know what happened exactly because he wants to have one’s share of the cake. He doesn’t even hesitate to search through Blanche’s trunk, breaking her privacy in order to discover the property paperwork. But he’s suspicious because he doesn’t find it and asks her about this, using the Napoleon Code (what belongs to the wife belongs to the