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Throughout the classroom discussion on A Streetcar Named Desire, I drew many conclusions and metaphoric connections that were and were not talked about throughout class. In scene one, Blanche is introduced as a rather ironic character in my opinion. Blanche is thrown into Elysian Fields, by travel of a streetcar named Desire. "They told me to take a street-car named Desire", she replies almost disgusted with where she is. Right off the bat, we see Blanche's first response in the play as one of disorientation and confusion. This is a place where she described it as not what she expected it to be, and we draw the same conclusions with Blanche herself. Any student  who has studied deeper into metaphoric and analytical deep read connections, would read out Blanche to be an innocent incoming introduced character. In fact, we the readers get to see Blanche, meaning white in French, concludes an ironic viewpoint. Due to the fact Blanche is portrayed as the actual opposite of all things white, such as purity, we the readers get to draw out a new viewpoint on her. Throughout this short read, men and women are portrayed as their stereotypical placement in society during that time. Men like Stanley are shown to be masculine, and women like Stella shown to be submissive, but Blanche is shown as exactly the opposite, drinking and sleeping around, all masculine things to do in this time period.

Blanche represents the new modern day women throughout A Streetcar Named Desire. In the novel, Blanche is known for doing things such as closet drinking and sleeping around, and although the common women does not do those exact things, it introduces the new women bringing on masculine qualities in a harsh way. In my opinion, Blanche had to be given these intense qualities to prove the realness and richness of the switch over to equality between men and women in current society. While Blanche uses sex to feel better and stronger with who she is as a person, the mere fact she is sleeping with more than one man shows the changes in time. Along with drinking alcohol, Blanche is the mere adapter to the common women.

Although Blanche shows the masculine characteristics, they are all in private. The approach of Blanche representing the common women must be taken into the fact that what she is doing is taken to extremes and thrown into private. On the surface, Blanche is shown as a prim and proper women, which brings in another point from the play. Blanche and Stanley are so attracted to each other because of the fact they are complete opposites of each other. Blanche being prim and proper (on the surface), and Stanley being masculine and assertive. What we get to see throughout the play is each character is not all we think they are, and each character relates and connects to the next in many different ways. Each character has a different dynamic trait, and each character brings it out in another.