Scene One A Streetcar Named Desire

In Scene one for A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams does his best to first off, introduce the setting. Following this introduction Williams also try's to set common themes which will prove to be recurring throughout the story. The first and most important theme that Tennessee Williams introduces is women dependency towards men. It is first shown when Stella is talking with Blanche about how when Stanley goes out of town she can hardly stand it and how when he returns she runs to him like a child almost, and cry's on his lap like a baby. After this statement you realize the great dependency that Stella has over Stanley. Stella then goes further to make the statement about how she feels that this connection must be love. While Stella may be blinded, as a reader you see how pathetic of a statement that truly was. By saying this, Stella refers to love as something that is forced and to her, love is dependency. Tennessee Williams also introduces the male characters as tough and almost barbaric which sets the theme for how the men act throughout the story, Tennessee Williams also introduces the women as week and full of dependency's. These to altering character traits between the women and the men, represent the entire way of how women and men are portrayed throughout the story. The dependency that is shown in the women serves as the problem that women must face throughout the story. The fear of lonliness that both Stella and Blanche have along with dependency, leads to the demise of both of the characters. Later on in the story Stella and Blanche are both faced with the common problem of Stanley. Stanley served as an antagonist character due to how he both mentally and physically abused both Stella and Blanche. Stella and Blanche both new of the problem they had with Stanley and they both new how they had been mistreated by Stanley, yet they are both unable to do anything to fix the problem due to their dependency towards Stanley. If they had not had this dependency towards Stanley, they could of simply gotten Stanley out of their lives. However, nether of the women are able to do so which is the reason for the continuing problem with Stanley. Both women are trapped in their unhappy lives and are helpless and unable to do anything to pull them out of their situation. Both women have depended on people their whole lives because they both grew up as wealthy southern bells. Growing up this way may have resulted in the women being overly dependent on others and not being able to do things by their own. This handicaps both of them and again serves to be the reason for their eventual downfall. Their willingness to depend and trust others in order to not be lonely is the sole reason for how both women end up in the situations that both of them ended up in, dependent, out of place, and lonely.