A Streetcar Named Desire | Scenes 3, 4, 5, 6 Summary

Scene 3
The tension in the house continues in the next scene when the sisters return after an evening out to the house where Stanley is holding a poker party. Resenting the interest that Mitch, one of his friends, shows in Blanche, the now drunken Stanley shows his jealousy of Blanche and becomes violent with Stella, who we now know is pregnant. After retreating briefly upstairs to the Hubbells' apartment, Stella returns to Stanley and they go off to bed together.

Scene 4
Despite this brutality and Blanche's attempts to persuade her to leave him, Stella...


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