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What are your initial impressions of Blanche and Stanley in the first three scenes of 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
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What are your initial impressions of Blanche and Stanley in the first three scenes of 'A Streetcar Named Desire'? The setting for, A Streetcar Named Desire is the home of Stanley and Stella in down-town New Orleans. Their house is portrayed as simple and small, 'weathered grey, with rickety outside stairs'. The surrounding area is alive with both white and black, American and non-American, situated next to the 'brown river' and in close proximity with a busy railway line. It is in this multi-cultural area that Stanley Kowalski is resident male. Stanley is very much a product of his society, comparable to his surroundings; his living section is described as having a 'raffish charm' - this could very well be a description of Stanley himself. The first impression we gain of Stanley is of the primeval male; he is at the peak of physical fitness, a man in his late thirties....
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