Many elements of A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is a very worldly work that contains issues of life; a guilty feeling of abandonment, the anger and frustration between two complete opposites and the violation of rape. It happens in New Orleans where there are many different races. Blanche DuBois loses her ancestral home, Belle Reve, and her teaching position due to promiscuity. With expectations for her new life, she goes to live with her pregnant sister Stella and her brutal husband, Stanley Kowalski. Throughout the show we can distinguish many differences between Blanche and Stella. Although they come from the same noble and aristocratic family, their life philosophies are distinct and lead them down different paths. Blanche is a highly vulnerable, as well as neurotic, woman who lives in a world of alcoholic self-deception. He is intelligent, but prefers magic to realism. He gives too much importance to his manners and appearance. She asks to be seen for who she wants to be, rather than who she really is. This is the reason for the paper lanterns and constant bathing: he is creating his own world of illusions. The exact opposite of Blanch is Stella. Unlike her sister, she is a passive and gentle woman. She is five years younger than Blanche, around 25, and has been submissive to her all her life. After marrying Stanley, she is forced to join the lower class, put up with her husband's bad temper, and be obedient to him. Blanche is not a compromising person who knows how to adapt to changes. Furthermore, I think he is afraid of alterations and denies facing reality (e.g. he is afraid of losing his possessions, his youth and beauty, etc.). She feels very uncertain about the new world and tries to persist in her way of behaving and thinking, since that is how she was brought up: to be a lady. Stella is the figure that connects two different worlds: the supposedly real world of Blanche DuBois and the more ordinary world of Stanley Kowalski. Blanche and Stanley both try to influence her and succeed to some extent. Stella still has many of the qualities that were instilled in her at Belle Reve, but she doesn't let that stop her from having fun. Because she is so caught between two completely opposite worlds, she is stuck and ultimately forced to side with one of them.