How does Williams establish and developthe tensions between Blanche and Stanley in the first three scenes? Where do your sympathies lie?
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How does Williams establish and develop the tensions between Blanche and Stanley in the first three scenes? Where do your sympathies lie? A Street Car named Desire is a play written about a wife and sister caught between a conflict concerning her violent, rough but loving husband and her long lost sister who criticises the way she lives her life. As the tension build between Stanley, the husband and Blanche, the sister something seems bound to erupt sooner than later. Scene one is where we are first introduced to both Stanley and Blanche. At first glance, Stanley seems like any other boyish husband, joking and laughing with his male friends. In our first taste of Blanche, we notice she isn't used to life in a below average area with her disbelief at realising she has found her sister's house; "This - can this be - her home?" It becomes clear she is of...


