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\n2. For a mild mannered woman, Stella Kowalski shows determination and independence when it comes to deciding her own fate. Her passionate love for her husband drives her to disregard her family\u2019s opinion over Stanley, which allows her to enjoy to enjoy the simpler less luxurious life she is bound to have with Stanley. Although she was very courageous when it came to leaving home, when is comes to Stanley, Stella turns into a submissive version of herself who doesn\u2019t stand up to her husband and refuses to accept that he less than perfect. Never the less, she is a very kind woman who cares about others more than she cares about herself.
\n3. Being raised as a southern belle, Stella has none of the vulgarity that the people surrounding her possess, which sets her apart and lends to her aristocratic air. She speaks in a very warm tone through which all of her love and compassion is expressed. She has a motherly like way of communicating with others, which adds even more charisma to her character.
\n4. Stella\u2019s main purpose throughout the play is to be happy and stay happy no matter if the world is falling apart around her, which leads her to turn her back on reality in order to hold on to that little piece of happiness she has built.
\n5. Denial and determination allow her to shut out reality and live in a world away from the conflict between her two loves, her husband and her sister. Although it is very clear that her life is far from perfect Stella never admits herself the truth and decides to live life built on denial and phoniness.
\n6. Although Stella does face some issues of her own the main problem in the play is between Stanley and Blanche. Stella acts as a mediator between them and attempts to solve their differences. The issues between Stanley and Blanche cause Stella a lot of frustration because being the kind and compliant person she is, she feels guilty for the sufferings of her loved ones.
\n7. At the beginning of the play, Stella seems to be satisfied with the lifestyle she is living, she seems to be happy but at the same time very preoccupied.
\n8. Stella\u2019s sister, Blanche sees her as irresponsible and selfish since she left her alone at Belle Reve and only caring about her own happiness. Blanche claims Stella abandoned her in a time of need, and also feels Stella is irresponsible since she lets her husband mistreat her.
\n9. Stella represents the submissive woman who stands in her husband\u2019s shadow.
\n10. Stella was raised in a high-class society as a typical southern belle, but she gives it all up for the love of her life and is forced to lose her social position and descends form high-class to the middle class. Yet because of the way she was raised, Stella stood out from the rest of the middle class people.
\n11. Society expects Stella to be loyal to her husband and serve him, as he is the provider of their household. Stereotypically, women like Stella need to obey their husband\u2019s orders and make sure they are happy whenever they are at home, they need to cook, clean, and serve their husbands all the time. Stella is also expected to stay home and raise Stanley\u2019s children","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36860844","dateCreated":"1301544638","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"ellagicacid","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ellagicacid","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1343664898\/ellagicacid-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36860844"},"dateDigested":1531973924,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Catherine Earnshaw","description":"Catherine Earnshaw
\nCharacter Analysis
\nElla Nugent
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\n1. We are not told much about what Catherine looks like; only that she is extremely beautiful, very fair and has peculiar, lively eyes. It is also revealed that she has thick, brown hair and is quite elegant-looking when she wishes to be. As a child, her face and clothes were usually dirty but after staying with the Lintons, she tidies herself up and wears fancier and nicer dresses.
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\n2. Catherine Earnshaw is stubborn, out-spoken, strong-willed, passionate, wild, mischevious and spoiled. She also goes crazy towards the end of the book. She values being a lady and money but also cares about her family and Heathcliff.
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\n3. Catherine is educated and knows her manners. She is intelligent and speaks properly. She is usually very direct with her language and words.
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\n4. Catherine wants to be a lady. She wants to be rich and live in a nice house and this is her motivation for marrying Edgar and is the concious decision she makes. Deeper inside, she knows she loves Heathcliff and wants to be with him but her want\/pressure to be a lady outweighs it.
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\n5. Catherine gets what she wants (be a rich, respectable woman of higher class) by marrying Edgar.
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\n6. When Catherine is faced with problems, she usually kicks up a big fuss and is dramatic. She usually cries or screams and attacks people with her words.
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\n7. Her emoitional state at the beginning of the book is okay, usually happy as a child. She becomes frustrated when she is separated from Heathcliff and when they fight. She becomes extremely confused when faced with the decision between Edgar and Heathcliff. At the end of the book her emotional\/pyscological state breaks down and she goes insane, becomes ill and dies.
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\n8. Other characters describe Catherine as lively and mischevious as a child and dramatic and passionate when she grows up. The other characters acknoledge the fact that she is beautiful but many call her selfish and think she is a "handful".
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\n9. I think Catherine represents the social obligation for a woman to marry someone of a higher class during that time. She represents the conformity; doing what society expects her to do rather than doing what she geniunely wants.
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\n10. Catherine is of a higher class and takes another step up the social ladder after marrying the respectable Edgar Linton.
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\n11. Catherine was obviously expected to marry in a higher class and to behave herself.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36842518","dateCreated":"1301525089","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"gmurphy3","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/gmurphy3","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36842518"},"dateDigested":1531973924,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Blanche","description":"Blanche Dubois
\n1) Blanche Dubois is a delicately beautiful woman. She has a petite frame and dresses in fancy clothing with cheap, dress-up jewelry. She is never unkempt and always bathed. Blanche is five years older than her sister Stella, but always attempts to look much younger.
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\n2) There is more than what meets the eye with Blanche. At first she comes across as an innocent women with only good intentions. However, as the story progresses we see that she is very complicated psychologically. Blanche tends to take pity on herself and is very whiney and needy. She has lots of dignity and holds herself to a very high standard. Blanche lives off of compliments, she is very insecure and needs constant confirmation from others that she is good enough.
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\n3) Blanche\u2019s speech is very poetic and beautiful. Her speech shows that she is obviously educated and high class. She knows how to use metaphors and incorporate beautiful language into everyday conversation. Blanche uses her speech as a way to show people that she is witty and intelligent.
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\n4) First, Blanche wants a new life. She has had a complicated past and wants to start over. Blanche also wants something that is impossible to have, eternal youth. She hates the thought of growing old and wants to stay young. Blanche also wants a possible life with Mitch and wants her little sister Stella to be happy.
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\n5) Blanche gets what she wants by persuasion. She used her wit and charm to control people into doing what she wants them to do. For example, she controls Mitch in their relationship and controls her sister by seeming innocent and helpless.
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\n6) Blanche responds to problems by completely breaking down. She does not handle adversity well and becomes very self-defensive. She hates when Stanley tries to bring her down because she is already unstable as it is. She is a very passive-aggressive person and responds to problems by seeming passive, but really she is manipulative.
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\n7) Blanche is emotionally traumatized. She has had a crazy past, from losing her young husband to getting kicked out of her hometown. She is frustrated with herself and is very insecure. Blanche is so wrapped up in the past that she becomes depressed and slowly goes crazy. Blanche starts to hear music in her head that no one else can. Because of her insecurities, she hates to go out into the light because it reveals her true self, which is not the classy young woman she wants to be. Also, Blanche is obsessed with bathing herself. This signifies that she feels like a dirty, corrupt person and constantly has to be washing herself of her imperfections.
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\n8) Stella is the kind of person who stresses people out. She is extremely needy and requires 24-hour attention. Her sister Stella loves her and takes pity on her, while Stanley thinks she is condescending and makes him feel low class. Blanche can be a very captivating character, which is why Mitch falls for her.
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\n9) Blanche represents the hardships of being a high society woman at that time. So much is expected of her and she absolutely breaks down under pressure.
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\n10) Blanches station in the story is a high class woman who cant handle the pressures of society. While Blanche may not be as upper class as she thinks she is, she still believes that she should be treated like royalty and sees herself as better than everyone else in the story.
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\n11) Blanche expects more out of herself than others do. Society expects Blanche to be kind, caring, and delicate while her family and friends that she is visiting expect her to be a gracious guest, which she is not. She expects herself to be flawless and beautiful. She also expects herself to be able to get everything she wants, she thinks that she should be able to get people to do anything for her.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36836136","dateCreated":"1301518789","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"fabig1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/fabig1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1229012865\/fabig1-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36836136"},"dateDigested":1531973924,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Blanche","description":"1. Blanche Dubois from Streetcar named Desire is skinny and well kept. She is meticulous of her appearance and always wants to be in her best look at all times. She tries to look like a high class women using dresses that look expensive but are really poor.
\n2. Blanche Dubois has a wily and innocent temperament. She looks like an angel but then once we learn about her past, she is not. She values security and is controlled by other people because she depends on what the other people think about her. She fears aging and being alone.
\n3. Blanche is intelligent because she tries to hide the truth in order to get what she wants and to control people a. She was also a teacher in the past. Her language is full of wit with words that are of a higher class. She uses vague language that doesn\u2019t portray the message that she wants us to understand.
\n4. Blanche wants to have her old husband back and take everything that she did back. She has certain decisions like taking constant bathes to cleanse her body from the past as well as keep away from the light in order to hide her past.
\n5. Blanche gets what she wants by trying to seduce the other person. She also flees from certain situations by moving away or something of that matter, like when Stanley was telling her that her past was a lie she tried to walk away and ignore him
\n6. Blanche, when threatened has a mental breakdown because she doesn\u2019t want the people to know about her past and her mistakes. She also has a mental breakdown when she is truly revealed by the light , she starts imagining things and hearing things.
\n7. She is melancholy and frustrated about her past because she is so fond of her old husband and how she got him killed. Her past is what causes her depression and actions because she is so closely tied with her past. Her mood is tied throughout the play.
\n8. What the other characters say about Blanche is true because she is always lying about the past to keep away from it so we are told the truth about Blanche by the other surrounding characters.
\n9. Blanche represents the people who are stuck to their past and can\u2019t let it go because they are so fond and deeply compassionate with it. She represents chronic depression and denial in the people.
\n10. Blanche\u2019s station in life was high, but then as the time passed and the future arrived, she became the poor low class that needed assistance from her family because she was fired because of her actions.
\n11. Blanche is expected to work for men and be below them as well as be married and have children and never complain. She is also expected never to speak up to men and always do as she is told. For example when she speaks against Stanley there is a conflict because she isent doing what she is supposed to do","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36817088","dateCreated":"1301503445","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"alabuda","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/alabuda","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36817088"},"dateDigested":1531973924,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Stanley Kowaski","description":"Stanley Kowalski from the "Streetcar Named Desire."
\n1. Stanley Kowalski is a young attractive man. He\u2019s in his 20. He is said to be well built. He wears typical working clothes but he is known for wearing a green bowling shirt.
\n2. Stanley is mean, arrogant, aggressive, over confident, dominant and somehow foolish. He thinks that since he\u2019s a man he must the ruling the household. Stanley gets offended really easily and takes everything very personally. Sometimes it seems like he is a little boy trapped in a body of a strong man. He also fears that Blanche will ruin his relationship with Stella
\n3. He is not a very intelligent guy. He believes everything that he\u2019s being told. His language is simplistic, average. He talks like a typical working class American. His grammar is terrible sometimes and it never complex.
\n4. He wants Blanche to leave his house as soon as she can. He dislikes her greatly and is willing to ruin her life just to get rid of her. When he can\u2019t make her go away quickly he becomes aggressive, mean and frustrated.
\n5. He has a plan about how to destroy Blanche. He gathers information about her bad past so that everyone will dislike her and she will be willing to leave the town. He also ruins her reputation, talking bad about her to other people, even her own sister. He manipulates other people to believe his stories about Blanche that don\u2019t have to be true, really. He makes a false impression of her.
\n6. Stanley doesn\u2019t like having problems at all. He\u2019s trying to get rid of them as fast as he can. He gets very angry and uses violence if he is failing at eliminating them.
\n7. Stanley is a frustrated, confused, angry and hateful persona. He is frustrated that Blanche sticks her nose into his business. He is confused about her past and how she ended up in his house. He\u2019s angry that she keeps on mocking him and that he can\u2019t get rid of her. He can be sweet only to Stella. And it is not always true. He begs for her forgiveness after he\u2019s done something wrong but he never thinks about his action before he does them.
\n8. Stella always defends her loved one. She lets Stanley hit her because it is \u201cnormal around here\u201d. She\u2019s always got some \u201creasonable\u201d explanation of why he did it and why she should forgive him. Blanche, on the other hand, thinks of him as a disgusting pig with no manners.
\n9. Stanley can represent a typical, dominant man; the head of a household. I\u2019m not sure but I think it was pretty \u201cnormal\u201d to hit your woman in the 1930s. Stanley represents a typical working class man with little brain, big muscles and anger management issues.
\n10. He is a working class man. He is a Polish heritage but was born in America.
\n11. He is expected to being able to support and feed his growing family. He is also expected to be a good parent for his new baby.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36790612","dateCreated":"1301462749","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"cecyrodriguez","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/cecyrodriguez","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36790612"},"dateDigested":1531973924,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Character Analysis Cecilia Roriguez","description":"Cecilia Rodriguez
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\n1.Blanche likes to dress in her own manner that is with appropriate Southern Belle dresses and fake Jewelry. Her appearance is extremely important to her for she always wants to appear in the right light towards others. She is a woman full of vanity and her beauty has faded through the years. Her figure is small and skinny.
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\n2.Blanche worries that her past will follow her wherever she goes. She tries to find comfort in the happiness men bring her. When she is in a stressful situation she makes sure to bath herself to clean it off. Her temperament seems to be controlled at most times until the end when she ahs no choice but show her true self, and even then she keeps her composure, or at least tries to, in the last scenes she looses it. Her way of being with other people is manipulative and wanting to be appearing innocent and like a victim. She always seems to hope for the best and try to show a positive side, even though through her actions and slipped words you can see what she is really feeling, that isn\u2019t always exactly that.
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\n3,Blanches language is one that is very singular, because she seems to always want to have to say the appropriate thing at the appropriate time. When she is with Mitchell she is very careful what she says and through her words makes people feel the way she wants them too. Her words give her security and control of the situation, like when she confronts her sister or Steven. She tries to be the appropriate lady that knows how to lighten the mood, even when the reason why everyone is mad is because of her. Her language is to show how appropriate and lady-like she is. She tries to show she still has a good reputation and can be classy.
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\n4.Blanche has a very terrible past , after loosing important property, having her husband commit suicide and becoming a prostitute, she is hoping to move in with her sister and her husband and start over. Marrying someone will make her forget and give her a fresh new start. It will make her appearance of the past disappear and bring back a new life, full of pretentious youth. At first she is very calm on what she wants and just runs smoothly through the situations that come up to her. After some time desperation starts to kick in and Steven torments her, while he ties to uncover her past. The strengths of her motivations grow until she looses it. She isn\u2019t able to keep it in anymore or wash it away that she willingly leaves the house to the Asylum.
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\n5.Blanche is a very manipulative character towards everyone that buys what she says. Like her sister and Mitchell at first. She talks to them in the most humble ways and manners of asking the least possible from them, not trying to be a bother, but more like help or company. She wants to be what everyone needs, the friend and help Stella has needed and the wife for Mitchell. This ways she gets what she wants that is a secure home and future where she won\u2019t feel as lonely or saddened about her past. Blanche doesn\u2019t succeed with her plans, because Stella in the end stays with Steven and Mitchell learns about her past and leaves her.
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\n6.Blanche gives a very big significance to bathing. She always tries to escape the problem and wash it off. She is stressed and doesn\u2019t understand why she is being accused of such things. She wants to make it go away and finds the comfort in the attention men still give her. She has a breakdown but while going throw it, she starts to realize she can decompose herself or her image. She wants people to know that there is no reason for her to breakdown, so she doesn\u2019t. Deep down inside she feels the weight of the things of her past and how nothing Is working out for her. She isn\u2019t typically happy person, but her nerves do come out when she is confronted by another character. Ignoring what is going is also an escape for her, for she tends to move away and ignore the rude comments people say to her.
\n7.Blanche at the beginning is thrilled to be coming to visit her sister. She then shows that she can be a very normal person, and everything that once went wrong wasn\u2019t her fault or was beyond her control. She is content to be meeting Mitchell and a little concerned about her sister. When she talks to Mitchell she realizes that not all has been forgotten and preoccupation starts to kick in. Her emotional states are covered and denied. She might be feeling threatened or sad but she doesn\u2019t seem to show it with expressions or actions but more with her words. The real frustration that kicks in and the words she chooses to use with Stella show her true feeling and her emotional state.
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\n8.Steven form the very beginning is incredibly suspicious of her and wont believe a word she says His mission is to convince Stella of what a horrible and fake person she is. He believes that Blanche is pure trouble and here to ruin his life. Mitchell at first believes she is very sweet and honest and trying to fin her way through life. Stella has an image of Blanche when they were younger that was before all the problems had occurred. She talks and looks at Blanche though the same manner as if she was still like that and stands up for her most of the times. Stella and Mitchell, at the begging show respect for her. Steven never does.
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\n9.Blanche is very mysterious at first and her purposes aren\u2019t really shown. She tends to look stronger than she is and constantly needs the support of others Blanche tries to get back in her feet as Steven investigates and finds more about her and her world begins to crumble apart. She tries to hold it in together and live a fantasy where she is young, beautiful, fancied by me, and one were she is married and is wealthy. None of this happens for she represents woman who lives in denial of everything that has happened to her and follows her no matter where she goes.
\n10.Blanche isn\u2019t very wealthy but wants others to believe she is.
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\n11.Steven wants her to leave as soon as possible. Mitchell expects her to want their relationship to continue into something possible and real. Stella wants her to be happy and the way she has always been. The other men just want the environment where they live to be normal, even when she is in it. They all live in their own zone of comfort and when Blanche appears they expect her to do great things, if not just stay quiet and integrate into their lives, until they find out about her past.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36790128","dateCreated":"1301461264","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"marinacoccaro","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/marinacoccaro","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36790128"},"dateDigested":1531973924,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Streetcar","description":"Stella Dubois
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\n\u2022 Petite
\n\u2022 Skinny
\n\u2022 Short, blonde hair
\n\u2022 Dark, roundish eyes
\n\u2022 Delicate features
\n\u2022 Wears long, old dresses
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\n\u2022 Stella is an independent young lady, the love of her husband is essential to her, but she knows how to get what she wants and doesn\u2019t fear Stanley\u2019s violent actions
\n\u2022 Has a calm temperament
\n\u2022 Cares a lot about the well being of others and is constantly helping her sister; very generous
\n\u2022 Fears losing Stanley and putting Blanche in problems
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\n\u2022 Stella\u2019s language is very clear and to the point. She knows exactly how to express her feelings through words.
\n\u2022 Her language is simplistic; it is easy for us readers to understand what she is trying to transmit to us.
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\n\u2022 Stella wants the good of her sister Blanche, but at the same time wants her marriage to work and keep a strong relationship with her husband.
\n\u2022 She is not an exigent person; unlike her sister, Stella doesn\u2019t need luxury and glamour in order to be happy. As long as she\u2019s got love and a passionate relationship, she is glad.
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\n\u2022 Stella gets the passion and desire she wants from Stanley by always giving what he asks for. She keeps a stable relationship with him by answering all his questions and clarifying all his doubts. She explains to him the issue in Belle Rive in order to be in good terms with him, and even hands him some old documents she had that concerned such property.
\n\u2022 She also gets the good of her sister by letting her live in her house, taking care of her and always providing her with everything she needs.
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\n\u2022 Stella usually acts very peacefully and in a very mature way. She thinks before she acts, is not very impulse and neither too violent, except for the time she got in a fight with Stanley during the poker night.
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\n\u2022 Stella is a very emotional person. She lets her feelings influence her a lot, and gives significant importance to her emotional life.
\n\u2022 She is very compassionate with others, and is not the type of person that would stand up for revenges and such things
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\n\u2022 Most characters view Stella as a loving, passionate woman. Everyone knows the type of relationship she has with Stanley, and they are aware it takes a lot of desire and attraction for them to keep up with what they already have.
\n\u2022 In the other hand, Blanche sees her little sister as a dreamer; someone that lives in a world filled with fantasies and is not aware of what a wild world we live in. Blanche also views Stella as a careless person since she didn\u2019t stay in Belle Rive and didn\u2019t go through all the problems Blanche had to experience and try to solve.
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\n\u2022 Stella represents the people that always see a bright side in everything. She is not submissive, but that doesn\u2019t mean her relationship with her husband lacks any type of love nor affection. She imposes respect but at the same time, due to her kind personality, people misinterpret who she really is and abuse of her niceness.
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\n\u2022 After she married Stanley, she became part of the working class.
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\n\u2022 People expect Stella to always be gentle and caring, what they don\u2019t seem to understand is that she has feelings like anybody else. She is smart, bright, and doesn\u2019t deserve to be thought as vulnerable and immature.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36789598","dateCreated":"1301460325","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"eli-picado","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/eli-picado","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1283475869\/eli-picado-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36789598"},"dateDigested":1531973925,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"A Streetcar Named Desire","description":"1. Stanley Kowalski is a very handsome man: he is in good shape, tall and strong. He usually wears shabby clothes for work and a bowling jacket when he goes out with his friends. He also has a pajama for \u201cspecial occasions\u201d. He is near his thirties.
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\n2. Stanley is a very aggressive man. Whenever situations do not fit with his plans, he gets angry and gets blinded by his aggressiveness and does things that he later regrets. He is really arrogant and believes himself superior to everyone else. He is really honest, and this sincerity sometimes makes him mean with the people who bother him. He cares about Stella, but his temperament often stops him from being tender and affectionate with her.
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\n3. Stanley talks with a simplistic language. He doesn\u00b4t care about what people think about him, so he doesn\u00b4t put any effort into elaborating his phrases. He talks the same way he thinks. He goes straight to the point. He often uses sarcasm and harsh words to hurt Blanche.
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\n4. Stanley wants to expose Blanche\u00b4s secrets. He wants to know the truth about her and also wants Stella to find out. His motivation is really strong because the only reason why he wants to find out Blanche\u00b4s secrets is to expose her to her sister and be able to kick her out of their house. This way, he and Stella could continue their lives peacefully.
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\n5. When Stanley is determined to achieve something, he starts working hard for it and will eliminate any obstacle in his way. To achieve his main goal, he uses his friends\u00b4 knowledge to investigate everything about Blanche\u00b4s life before she arrived to his house. Later, when he learns the truth, he exposes her to Stella. At the end, Blanche\u00b4s problems allow them to send her to a mental hospital, thus achieving what Stanley wants.
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\n6. Stanley doesn\u00b4t like it when he is in disadvantage, so when he is faced with a problem, he does anything in his power to solve it. However, when this is harder than he expected, frustration consumes him and he releases it with aggressiveness and violence.
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\n7. Stanley\u00b4s emotional state is divided into two opposite sides of him. First, one can see the aggressive, cold, sarcastic and hateful side of him that arises when he is uncomfortable and angry about something. Then, one can see his vulnerable, tender, affectionate and loving side whenever he is not angry and alone with Stella, and when Stella leaves him.
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\n8. The reader learns from Blanche that Stanley is not polite, doesn\u00b4t care about manners, is vulgar and doesn\u2019t care about a neat, clean appearance. From Stella, the reader learns that Stanley can be really affectionate and loving. Finally, from Stanley\u00b4s friends we learn that alcohol is what triggers his aggressiveness.
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\n9. Stanley represents both the main role of man in 1940\u00b4s and the minorities present in the society of that time. He represents the typical man that is the head of the family: the dominant figure and the provider of all of the women\u00b4s needs. He represents the minority because he is an immigrant from Poland. He was raised with different customs from a different culture that is misunderstood in the new environment he is living.
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\n10. Stanley belongs to the working class. He\u00b4s ancestors were from Poland, but he was born in United States.
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\n11. Stanley is expected to be a good provider for his family. He is expected to protect his family and to be a good father.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36769120","dateCreated":"1301440192","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"lottej95","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lottej95","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36769120"},"dateDigested":1531973925,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"lotte jansen wiki question 19","description":"1) Heathcliff is a dark-skinned gypsy, with shoulder-length black hair, athletic figure, and described as a gentleman in dress and aspect. This is a description of him when he is an adult, but when he is young, he can be described as a scruffy and dirty servant.
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\n2) At the beginning of the novel, Heathcliff is described as bold, honest, and determined boy, but he also has a miserable, gloomy, and grumpy attitude when he is treated like a servant. When he becomes an adult, Heathcliff turns into a ruthless, vengeful, arrogant and morose character. He disregards other people\u2019s feelings and does not value kindness and honesty. He is not dependent on what other character\u2019s think of him because he himself thinks he is superior to everybody else. The only thing that he may fear is Catherine\u2019s rejection and losing her in his life.
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\n3) Heathcliff has always been an intelligent man, as seen from his use of wit and wide range of vocabulary. He uses his diversity of word choice to manipulate several characters that get into his way for what he wants. For example, he manipulates Hindley to attain his home and his behavior to Hindley is not vengeful at first because he wants to be able to get along with him before destroying his life. His vocabulary is mostly clear and easy to understand, but at times there may be need to interpret his reasoning and thoughts.
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\n4) Heathcliff\u2019s objective in the novel is sometimes interpreted as vague. We begin to discover at the beginning his love for Catherine and that he wants to be with her. When Catherine betrays him, his new objective becomes to seek revenge against everybody that has intentionally and unintentionally hurt him. He marries Isabella, takes Hindley\u2019s property, tortures his own son Linton and his nephew Hareton, and tries to take Thrushcross Grange and Cathy\u2019s fortune. He has a very strong motivation to seek revenge on everybody in his life.
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\n5) To get what he wants, Heathcliff uses a great deal of manipulation to strike out everybody in his way. He attacks characters by lying to them, convincing and persuading other characters to achieve his goals. He definitely does not flight or whine or complain to other characters, because that would show weakness in his persona, which is one thing that he avoids.
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\n6) When faced with problems, Heathcliff always uses aggression to release his anger, but only when Catherine dies, he has an emotional breakdown. When he realizes that the love of his life is about to pass away, he does not stay serious but instead has an emotional breakdown and only responds aggressively towards Nelly and Edgar, who want him out of their house. In the beginning, when he works as a servant and is picked on by Hindley, he only responds with insults and locks his aggression inside.
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\n7) Heathcliff is generally a melancholy, angry, and hateful character. What causes his emotional state is when Catherine dies, and he is overwhelmed with sadness and grief. He shows another side of himself. Also, when Catherine gets bitten by the dogs at the Linton\u2019s property, he runs for help in fear that she will get severely injured or taken in by the Lintons.
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\n8) The characters in the beginning think of Heathcliff as merely a servant, who even though has been put in their family, is not part of it. All of them except the father despise him at first for being brought into such a wealthy environment after living on the streets. As the story carries on, however, Catherine and Heathcliff become best friends, but he is still hated by Hindley. Towards the end, when they all become adults, everybody thinks of Heathcliff as a ruthless man, who seems to despise all mankind. Catherine, however, still has hope that he still is the friend he used to be.
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\n9) Heathcliff represents hatred, lost of hope, the theme of revenge and rebellion, and misfortune. All of these, I believe, are caused by his involvement in the Earnshaw family.
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\n10) When he is young, Heathcliff has always been treated unfairly and as a servant, before and after he lived on the streets. After his brief disappearance, however, he returns as a wealthy gentleman, who attains the property of Wuthering Heights and soon after, the property of Thrushcross Grange.
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\n11) I think that in the beginning, everybody expects him to act as a servant, but not as a close friend of Catherine. When he becomes an adult, they expect him to stay poor and desolate as he was when he was a child, but instead they see him as a wealthy landowner, who is still as grumpy and monstrous.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36760262","dateCreated":"1301431776","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"luisuarez","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/luisuarez","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1302804674\/luisuarez-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36760262"},"dateDigested":1531973925,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Alo alo Blanche Dubois","description":"1) Blanche Dubois is a mid-aged girl that has a \u201cdescent\u201d appearance. She is considered an attractive woman for the people in \u201cA Streetcar Named Desire\u201d. The clothes Blanche uses look expensive to the eye, but are very cheap and bad. Also she uses jewelry that is the same as her clothes; they look expensive but are very cheap. She is approximately 30 years.
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\n2) Blanche basically is very arrogant and high-handed. She thinks she is the \u201csexiest\u201d and the best in the story. Also, she is a liar. She likes to have power in her hands. Blanche primarily fears her past, for she thinks that it has affected her present.
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\n3) Blanche is a character that is not very intelligent. Even though she doesn\u2019t express her thoughts and desires very good, she\u2019s still intelligent. Blanche thinks that everyone understands her, and believes everybody listens to her.
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\n4) Blanche Dubois wants to control and to visit her sister Stella in New Orleans. She also wants to have \u201csomething\u201d with Mitch, even though Mitch doesn\u2019t want anything with her.
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\n5) Blanche Dubois manipulates the people around her to get what she wants. She tempts Mitch with attraction to make him do what she wants. For instance she seduces him when Mitch went into her house, even though she knew that Mitch no longer wanted anything.
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\n6) Blanche is threatened in the cases in which her respect is threatened. When Stanley abuses of her, she is really threatened. She responds by not doing something \u201charsh\u201d about it; for she does not do something in respect of the problem that Stanley abused of her.
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\n7) Blanche is a character that is \u201cself-frustrated\u201d. And I believe this because in the story she has many internal problems that are consuming his person. The fact that her first husband was homosexual frustrated Blanche, and this because she thought he knew him, but really didn\u2019t. Despite this, her emotional state is healthy.
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\n8) Other characters in the story complain about Blanche. Stanley doesn\u2019t like her companion in his house; and she was not welcome. Stella did accept her and welcomed her sister in her house; but there were some negative feedback upon her arrival in the house. Thus they didn\u2019t accept her very much.
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\n9) Blanche represents the typical \u201cwoman\u201d of the 1940\u2019s. She is a stereotype of the wealthy women of that time. And we can see this in the way she acted with everyone else. She thought she was superior; but in the same time she believed she was \u201cinferior\u201d of male figures.
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\n10) Her station in life is that she is part of the \u201chigher working class\u201d. Blanche is someone with wealth, but in limits. She isn\u2019t the richest, for she uses false and fake jewelry and clothes. Thus her station in life is that she is from a higher class.
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\n11) Society expect from her, to be a companion from her husband, and to be someone good. She is expected to be \u201cinferior\u201d to their husbands, and to obey most male people.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}