Streetcar Named Desire

At the end of the book, Stella tricks Blanche into going to a hospital, because Blanche is truly crazy. Stella does not handle this well. She was extremely upset watching the doctor and marton take her loving sister away. When the doctor and Blanche actually left, Stella was more upset about the situation than Blanche was, but then again Blanche was zoned out again because she now thought this doctor was a gentleman because he offered to shake her hand. Even though this was incredibly hard for Stella to do, this was the right thing for her. Blanche was extremely sick, and you were beginning to be able to see this throughout her normal everyday activities. She would stop in the middle of conversations complaining about the music she was hearing, even though the music was in her head. Also, her drinking was beginning to get out of hand for a women who claims she never touches the stuff. Lastly, she has done stuff in the past that could have messed up her future and the way she thinks. She saw her husband get killed, and then proceeded to react to this occurrences by sleeping with tons of other men, and hitting on underaged boys. She was a messed up girl, who needed lots of help, and Stella was doing the best thing for her. 

Streetcar Named Desire

In these chapters we find out alot about Blanche. First off, we find out that she walked in on her littler husband in bed with a man. At first she doesn't say anything to her about it, but then one night while they are dancing she tells him how disgusted she is and that she knows about it,and then her husband ran out of the room and shot himself in the head. Also, we find out that Blanche did have something to do with the Flamingo hotel. Lastly we find out that Blanche was never planning on going back to Laurel. She isn't on a leave of absence from the school she is working at, she was actually fired. This isn't the biggest part of the story. She wasn't fired because of how she teaches or a minor act done in the classroom. She was actually fired because she had an inappropriate relationship with her seventeen year old male student. She most likely wouldn't have gotten caught, but then the boys father found out. From then on out there were many meetings, and she fired. There are many truths about Blanche that come out throughout the reading last night. The only surprising one was about her husband killing himself because Blanche found out the truth. 

A Streetcar Named Desire 2

From the very first time we met Blanche we knew she was stuck up and thought she was better than everyone else. From the first sight of the living conditions Stella and Stanley were living in all the way to when she saw Stanley get completely wasted and start beating Stella, her beliefs of her being better than most people were just confirmed. Blanche first does not approve of Stanley because of how he treats Stella. She thinks he is a complete monster, and treats her like crap. She couldn't believe Stella would go back to a man like that so quickly, without much thought behind it. While this could be part of the reason for Blanche not liking Stanley, this was mainly a copout for the real reason. In reality, Blanche did not think that stanley was good enough for her sister or her family for that matter. She tried to get her sister to remember the type of men they used to be around to try and compare Stanley to them. The men they used to be around were pure gentlemen, but Stanley is far from that, and is always drunk. She then compares him to an ape, and tries to tell her sister that there are more evolved creatures than them out there, and she should look for them.

A Streetcar named Desire

Beginning in chapter 2, we see that Stella and Stanley start getting in a small argument about Stanley talking to Blanche about Belle Reve. The tensions are already high in the house because of this altercation, but then towards the end of chapter 3, they get taken to the next level. At 2:30 in the morning, the poker game with the men is still going on, and it is making both Stanley and Stella even madder. Stella stayed out extremely late so that when she got back to the house the poker game would already be over, but to her surprise it was still up and running strong. Stanley was annoyed that Stella was back already, and continued to get mad at her when she was talking and turing on the radio. He kept screaming at her and telling her to be quiet and leave, when she had no place to go really because it was 2:30 in the morning. Stanley's drunkenness and anger gets the best of him, and all of the sudden he is beating Stella. We have seen some verbal violence before this incident, but this is the first time we have actually seen Stanley hit Stella. After he realizes what he is done he soon feels bad about it and wants Stella to come back home, and Mitch goes on to tell Blanche that she most likely will because they love each other so much. The way Mitch puts it off as not such a big deal shows that it has probably happened before. 

Deffered essay

My first thoughts on this essay are that Willy and Norma are going to share alot of the same lines on the poem. Willy's dream of being a sales man dries up and basically goes away when he gets fired and even before that and Norma's dream of being an actress goes away too when speaking films come out. When we say dry up this means they were once successful, but then they dried up and lost all of their substance. Also, both of their dreams sag like a heavy load, but Willy's does especially. Norma has picture of her self all around her house and watches her old movies all of the time. She also has money to represent the success she had. Willy on the other hand does not have any of this. He is constantly trying to make ends meet money wise, and his dream of being a salesman is just holding him back. He wasn't reading to go on to a new dream, so his old dream just sulked around him while he hadno success. Also, i think both of their dreams "exploded" or at least tried to explode. All of the pressure around Willy's dream to have a successful business and family caused him to kill him self, and the lonliness Norma has gotten from the failure of her dream has caused her to try and kill herself also.

Willy and Norma

While only know Norma for a short time so far in the movie Sunset Blvd. you can already tell that Willy and Norma are alike in many ways. From what we know about Norma so far, she thinks she is incredibly good at what she does. She talked about how the films were good when she was in them, and when she stopped being in them and they started talking they got worse. She also assumes that everyone knows her and thinks greatly about her all of the time. At one time, Norma was somewhat successful because Joe knew who she was, but what Norma does not realize is that time is over, and she isn't the actress she once was. This is like Willy. He thought he was this wonderful salesman. A person that could do anything because he was well liked and successful. At one point in time, he most likely was a successful man, because he was able to talk to his boss about a possible raise, but then he lost it, just like Norma did. While they are alot alike in the fact that they both have these false images in their heads about themselves, they are different in many ways also. The main way they are different is Norma has a ton of money, while Willy was struggling to pay for his basic needs.

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While Willy might have thought that his final actions were going to noble because they would give his family more than he was able to give while he was alive, and it would be an opportunity to help Biff make something of him self, almost all of Willy's actions thought out the book, including his last, show signs of weakness. Willy was in general a weak man. When he was having his spirts of confidence you might have not been able to tell that he was weak, but if one thing changed, his other side would come out quickly. The reason he lied so much about him self and his family was because he was weak and he tried his best to hide it by making up lies to make everyone around him sound better than they actually were. These last actions were especially weak because he was just taking the easy way out of things even though he thought it would "help everyone" just because he would be giving them a whole bunch of money. Now his whole family will be morning his loss, missing him, and blaming themselves for the rest of their lives. No amount of money is worth that ever. Willy was swayed easily by Ben's comments. When Biff began to cry, everyone thought everything was going to get back to normal, and Willy was somewhat happy again, and then when Ben started talking about how much progress Biff would make if he had the insurance money, there was no stopping him.

Death of a Salesman 7

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Before Biff goes to Boston he has this picture perfect image of Willy, just like Willy has a perfect image of his sons, but especially Biff. He thinks his father is an amazing salesman, who is extremely well liked and goes throughout everyday meeting people and making money. When Biff goes to Boston, this perfect picture of his dad completely dissolves. When he first arrives, the first thing Willy does is lie about The Women who is in his bathroom, when Biff starts to ignore Willy because he knows he s lying, Willy starts changing the story to make it sound better for his sake. Then the Women completely ruins it for Willy because she asks for the stockings he promised her and keeps talking about how she is naked. Biff at this moment looses all trust in his father. He was someone Biff always looked up too, but when he realized he did something as low as have a mistress and give his mothers stockings away, Willy wasn't even worth Biffs trust anymore. He was a completely different man to Biff now. Also, the only reason Biff worked so hard in some of the things he did, like football, was because he wanted to make Willy proud. Before Boston, he was going to go to summer school, if the teacher wouldn't listen to Willy about the extra points, and pass the class so he could graduate, but now he has no reason to try and succeed because the man he was working hard for had died.

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Willy has been working on commission for a while now at his job. This creates a problem because he isn't selling anything which means he isn't bringing home a steady income or any income for that matter. Linda and Willy are always talking about all of their bills they have to pay and things that keep breaking, so Willy's non paying job isn't helping them at all. Also, now he doesn't even have a job where he could have the possibility of finally selling something to rely on any more. Whenever he needs money now he goes straight to Charley, and Charley gives him $50 or how ever much he needs. For the past few times Willy has made a visit to Charley's office, not only has Charley handed over some money to help Willy make it through the next week, but he also has been giving Willy a job oppertunity. I don't think it was smart of Willy to keep deyning Charley's offer. It might have been okay for him to deny it when he had a job, but now he is jobless and has no reason other than pride not to accept it. He goes in every week to ask for money, why not work for it and get a little but more money instead of muching off of Charley. I think it is more embarrassing for Willy to go in always asking Charley for money and not paying him back, than for him to go in and work hard for the money he is going to earn.

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Ben was a positive influence on Willy. He came from out of normal, and spilled his lies about success in front of willy, close enough for him to reach out and grab them. He belived everything Ben was saying. He fell for it when Ben was saying he just ended up in Africa, and after coming out of the jungle one day he was rich. Now Willy has this idea of instant success stuck in his head. He believes that it should be something easy to get, when in fact that isn't the case. Now he is living his life with those unreachable standards of Ben in his mind, and he is comparing everything he does to these standards. Ben might have been a good influence if his stories were real, but the fact that he is promoting something that is extremely unreasonable makes him an awful influence. Linda also believes he isn't a good influence. Ben is wanting Willy to pick up everything and move to Alsaks in order to strike it rich. Because Willy already has this god like image of Ben, he is easily swayed toward following him on his journey. Everything Ben is saying to him sounds wonderful. Wonderful enough to have him be able to get up and move everything in his life to the wilderness of Alaska. Linda hates that he is trying to convince her husband to do this. She thinks his life is fine where it is at. She also mentions something about her not being able to understand why people keep trying to rule the world now a days. This means that people are trying to do things that are much larger than they need to be happy. Also, they are doing things that are out of their reach.

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Happy and Biff's plan sounds like a stretch. They are extremely confidant that they are going to get the money, but 10,000-15,000 is an extremely large amount of money for a man to just give Biff after not seeing him for 10 plus years. They are relying on that money to get their idea in motion, and it just seems unlikely that they will be able to get that much money. Also, I don't think Biff will carry through with the plan. He is doing it to make his dad happier and to make him not as crazy, but they keep getting in aurguments over it. The sound of the plan made the dad extremely happy, but then he kept trying to give Biff advice. When Willy kept telling Biff what to do, it made Biff mad and he would start loosing his patience. Once he lost his paticience, he would say something that would hit Willy the wrong way, and then start to storm off, but his mother or Happy pulled him back to try and make things better with Willy. I don't think Biff will be able to follow through with the plan, because soon, he won't be able to handle Willy. Willy will then get mad and their hatred for each other will grow even stronger.