A Streetcar Named Desire: Main Characters



Blanche DuBois
(Cast by Vivien Leigh)

Blanche DuBois:  Neurotic central character as a high school English teacher from Laurel, Mississippi, moves to New Orleans to live with her younger sister named Stella and her husband called Stanley because she loses Belle Reve, the DuBois family home. She imagines living in the world of Old South chivalry and then causes her terrible destiny in the end. Actually, Blanche symbolizes the dead society of Old South and that old, intellectual romanticism.

Stanley Kowalski
(Cast by Marlon Brando)



Stanley Kowalski: The husband of Stella. Stanley, a Polish man, is heartlessly cruel to Blanche. He hates Blanche’s pretensions and wants to force her to face the music. He represents the new type of American in the New South: lacks education and deadly pursues success and wealth. 

Stella Kowalski
(Cast by Kim Hunter)

Stella Kowalski: Blanche’s younger sister who seems satisfied with her life as the wife of a New Orleans factory worker. She shares a robust sexual relationship with her husband―an animal, violent but renewing union.



Mitch

(Cast by Karl Malden)



Mitch: Stanley’s army friend, coworker, and poker buddy, who courts Blanche until he finds out that she lied to him about her sordid past.

Source from:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/streetcar/characters.html
Picture from:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/