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"Stella plays a vital role in helping the audience to understand the characters of Blanche and Stanley" Explore Williams' presentation of Stella in the light of this assertion.
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Tennessee Williams (1911-83) A Streetcar named Desire (1945) "Stella plays a vital role in helping the audience to understand the characters of Blanche and Stanley" Explore Williams' presentation of Stella in the light of this assertion. In your answer you should examine at least two appropriate extracts from the play. Blanche is presented as a mediator between the antithetical characters of Stanley and Blanche. She represents the assimilation of the old southern American values and class distinction, with the new multicultural and equitable America, represented by Stanley. This is shown by her transition from the privileged life she, led in Belle Reve to the life she lives now in Elysian Fields. She fits in well there and even though she is described the first time we see her in scene one as, "of a background obviously quite different from her husband's", she has made friends with her neighbours and does not treat them with...
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