Stella tells Eunice that she isn't certain she did the right thing, but that there is no way she could believe Blanche's story about the rape and continue to live with Stanley. Eunice comforts Stella, saying she had no choice but to doubt Blanche's story and continue life as usual with Stanley.
Stella Kowalski
Stella's union with Stanley is both animal and spiritual, violent but renewing. After Blanche's arrival, Stella is torn between her sister and her husband. Eventually, she stands by Stanley, perhaps in part because she gives birth to his child near the play's end.
As Blanche is led away, Stella abruptly decides to leave Stanley. The twist was dictated by the film industry, which demanded that Stanley be punished in some way for the rape. Subsequent film and TV versions have restored the original, bleaker ending, in which Stella remains with her husband.
His working-class status and Polish heritage as well make Stella's choice of him a rebellion against the aristocratic milieu in which she was raised (285). Despite the abuse suffered, Stella chooses to maintain her relationship to Stanley: “I'm not in anything I want to get out of” (314).
Why doesn't Stella leave Stanley when he strikes her after his poker night? She is thrilled by his violent side. What happened to Blanche's husband, the young poet? He committed suicide after Blanche discovered he was gay.
When Stella asserts that it's time to stop playing for the night, Stanley refuses her request, tells her to go upstairs to Eunice's, and disrespectfully slaps her on the buttocks. Stella is shamed and joins Blanche, who is planning to take another bath, in the bedroom.
Stanley yells "Stella!" in scene three. It comes after he has just physically beat Stella, who escapes upstairs to Eunice's apartment with Blanche. Stanley is in the street, half-dressed and drunk, calling for his wife to come back. Eunice tells him to stop and berates him for abusing his pregnant wife.
The doctor advances and speaks quietly and softly to Blanche. She responds to his quietness and says that she has "always depended on the kindness of strangers." The doctor leads her out and Stanley comes to comfort Stella by fondling her breasts.
Stanley lets slip that Stella is pregnant. Stella returns from the drugstore, and some of the men arrive for their poker game. Exhilarated by the news of Stella's pregnancy and by her own handling of the situation with Stanley, Blanche follows Stella for their girls' night out.
Progress booster: Stella's devotion to Stanley
It is obvious, even without her passionate declaration in Scene Four, that she is deeply in love with her husband, and this love is the cornerstone of her existence.
Blanche's final and very famous line, “I've always depended on the kindness of strangers,” is yet another example of tragic irony; what she considers “kindness” is only desire—the attention she gets from “strangers” is generally sexual in nature.
During the final scene of "A Streetcar Named Desire," the audience witnesses Stella adopting the delusion that her husband is trustworthy—that he did not, in fact, rape her sister. When Eunice says, "No matter what happens, we've all got to keep going," she is preaching the virtues of self-deception.
Stanley himself takes the final stabs at Blanche, destroying the remainder of her sexual and mental esteem by raping her and then committing her to an insane asylum.
Stella's desire for Stanley pulls her away from Belle Reve and her past. Stella is drawn to Stanley's brute, animal sexuality, and he is drawn to her traditional, domestic, feminine sexuality. Stella is pregnant: her sexuality is deeply tied to both womanliness and motherhood.
As Stella comes out of the bathroom, Blanche turns on the radio and begins a little waltz, and Mitch clumsily tries to follow when suddenly Stanley charges into the room and throws the radio out the window. Stella screams at him and tells everyone to go home. Stanley becomes enraged and hits Stella.
Key interpretation. Stanley's refusal to kiss Stella in front of Blanche could show that he is inhibited in Blanche's presence, or that he resents his wife for allowing her to stay with them.
At the end of the play, Stella, distraught at Blanche's fate, mutely allows Stanley to console her. In the film, this is changed to Stella blaming Stanley for Blanche's fate, and resolving to leave him.
Blanche's attempt to flirt with Stanley is her only known way of achieving success with men. She tries to use her charms. Actually, she wants Stanley to admire her and willingly commits a breach of decorum when she attempts this symbolic seduction.
Stanley's intense hatred of Blanche is motivated in part by the aristocratic past Blanche represents. He also (rightly) sees her as untrustworthy and does not appreciate the way she attempts to fool him and his friends into thinking she is better than they are.
Famous, torrid scene in which Stanley (Marlon Brando), remorseful after a tantrum, shouts for his wife Stella (Kim Hunter), in Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire, 1952, from Tennessee Williams' play.
Stanley Kowalski is a representation of New America - an America that was born after World War. Stanley, having fought in the Second World War, as “a Master Sergeant in the Engineers' Corps”, is now a part of the working class in New Orleans. He represents the American Dream of freedom and opportunity for all.
For Stanley, Stella is his life, wife and mother of his child, despite his abusive behaviour, he loves her in his way and is possessive about her because she is his hope for an enriching future and stable life with their child.
Besides, she says, Stanley is always smashing things around like that. On their wedding night, she says, he took one of her slippers and went around their new place smashing all the light bulbs with it. Stella still finds this amusing.
She did something wrong and abnormal because she felt depression, and surrender. That conditions, take along blanche to the deepest depression and phobia. The beginning cause Blanche psychiatric disorder is after the death of his lover, Allan, by suicide.
And Blanche's attraction to Stanley is evident from the beginning. But then again, Blanche is pretty much attracted to any man who shows her the slightest bit of attention. Blanche is no genteel lady of refinement as she would have everyone believe and Stanley sees through that delicate balancing act.