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"Tennessee Williams presents relationships between men and women as inevitably resulting in conflict." How far do you agree with this context? In "Streetcar Named Desire" Tennessee Williams explores how different characters interact with each other and especially the relationships between the two genders being constantly subject to disagreements. Williams demonstrates that it is not just the sex of a person that provokes conflict, but also upbringing, background and individual attitudes to daily aspects of life. Therefore it can be said that his approach is quite modern as he represents what constitutes gender rather than sex. Williams also wants to show that in some cases, like Stanley and Stella, the social background is an evident reason for disagreement, but on the other hand, it can also cause attraction The extracts which highlight how conflictual relationships between men and women can be are Scene III and Scene VI. In scene III Stanley...

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