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Streetcar Named Desire, A - Stanley's Brutality

In the Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley
Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways.   This classical play is
about Blanche Duboiss visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with
her sisters brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the
reveling truth of why Blanche really came.   Stanley Kowalski is a very
brutal and barbaric person who always has to feel that no one is
better than him.   His brutish and ferocious actions during the play
leave the reader with a bad taste in their mouths.   Stanleys
brutality is shown in several places during the duration of The Street
Car Named Desire .   For example, his first array of brutality is
evident at the poker night when he gets so angry and throws the radio
out the window.   Another example of his brutality is displayed when he
beats his wife, Stella.   Lastly, his arrogance and ferocious actions
are most apparent when he rapes Blanche, while his wife is in labor in
the hospital.
Stanley Kowalskis first exhibition of his brutal actions
occurs at poker night.   Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley
demands her to turn it off.   Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up
himself and turns it off himself.   When Stanleys friend, Mitch, drops
out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he
even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio.   Due to the
music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the room and grabs the
radio and throws it out the window.   His friends immediately jump up,
and then they drag him to the shower to try to sober him up.   This is
the first example of Stanleys rage and brutality.
Not only does throwing the radio out the window represent an
impure demeanor, but so does beating your wife.   During his entire
rage during poker night he is not sober which leads to another
problem.   When he threw the radio out the window, he then immediately
charged right at his wife, Stella.   He was in such rage and he...