Why Is Blanche Lost In A Streetcar Named Desire

Blanche went to visit her sister, Stella, and her husband Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans. There are several reason why Blanche went to visit Stella. One of the main reason was because the family property, Belle Reve, was lost. By going to New Orleans Blanche would stay with family and comfort herself because the family property that she was in charge of was lost. After arriving in New Orleans, Blanche was surprise on how different it was compared to Mississippi. Unlike Mississippi, people of different cultural backgrounds lived in harmony in New Orleans. Also, Blanche was so surprise by Stella’s living condition and asked her “Why that you had to live in these conditions!”(12). Blanche was not use to the living conditions of New Orleans where the rooms are smaller than the one’s she is use to smaller.
Poker night is when the relationship of Blanche and Stanley started to deteriorate. Stanley's friends Mitch, Pablo, and Steve came to play poker while Blanche and Stella had a girls night. When they returned returned Blanche started talking with Mitch and distracted from the poker game. Stanley became very angry because Blanche was distracting Mitch and because she turned the radio on …show more content…
Blanche said to Stella about Stanley, “He acts like a human, has animal habits!Eats like one, talk like one! Theres even something-subhuman-something not quite to the stage of humanity yet!”(83). Stanley was secretly listening to the conversation between Blanche and Stella. Stanley became very unhappy with Blanche and that conversation motivated him to find out the real reason why Blanche came to New Orleans and all her past secrets. Stanley got upset with his sister -in-law because tried to come between him and his wife. Blanche calling Stanley an ape was not right and she was in the wrong for that. However, Stanley takes it a step further and tried to completely destroy Blanche and make enemies for