The Relationship between Stella and Stanley in Scene 4 of 'A Streetcar Named Desire'.

Look at scene IV of 'Streetcar' What does the scene tell us about the relationship between Stella and Stanley, and how does Williams portray this? In order to analyse this scene, there needs to be a clear understanding of what has happened prier to it. Scene three is set at Stanley's poker game, when Mitch leaves the game, to chat to Blanche, Stanley becomes more and more annoyed, and smashes a radio. Stella yells at …

…relationship, because she has never reconciled her identity with her own profound desire. The divide is too great between her aristocratic sense of self and the "animal" urges that have at times controlled her. Blanche herself invokes the streetcar named Desire as a metaphor of what she believes Stella feels. Stella throws the metaphor back at her: "Haven't you ever ridden on that streetcar?" Blanche's answer, "It brought me here," is truer than Stella knows.