Streetcar Named Desire Poker. Firstly it shows stanley as an alpha male. A streetcar named desire blanche du bois who is a school teacher from laurel in mississippi comes to new orleans apartment belonging to her sister stella kowalski.
Stanley and the boys sit around the kitchen table swilling whiskey and playing cards. The poker games in a streetcar named desire serve as a device to show how crudely stanley treats stella. Scene three is a very relevant part of a streetcar named desire and shows the differences in personalities of each character.
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Selznick to create an original painting based on a scene in the film version of tennessee williams s pulitzer prize winning play a streetcar named desire. Poker accentuates the battle of the sexes in the 1951 film a streetcar named desire. The work was a gift for selznick s first wife irene a theatrical producer responsible for bringing the play to broadway in the same year. The poker games in a streetcar named desire serve as a device to show how crudely stanley treats stella.
