1. Stanley Kowalski is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire.
14 Facts About Stanley Kowalski
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Stanley Kowalski was an Army engineer in World War II, having served as a Master Sergeant.
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Stanley Kowalski is a controlling, hard-edged man, with no discernible capacity for empathy, forgiveness, or patience, and no apparent family ties of his own, although he once mentions a cousin.
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Stanley Kowalski has a vicious temper and fights with his wife, sometimes leading to instances of domestic violence, which mirror those of the older married couple who live upstairs, the Hubbells.
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Stanley Kowalski's life becomes more complicated when Stella's sister Blanche shows up at their door for a seemingly indefinite "visit".
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Stanley Kowalski resents the genteel Blanche, who derides him as an "ape", and calls him a "Polack".
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Stanley Kowalski poses a threat; in his mind to both his regimented, hedonistic lifestyle and his marriage and concomitant control of his wife.
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Stanley Kowalski determines to eliminate this perceived threat and take his revenge.
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Stanley Kowalski starts asking questions from a seedy street merchant, Shaw, who knew Blanche in her old life.
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Stanley Kowalski learns from Shaw that she was paid to leave Mississippi to quell gossip about her many affairs, which she began after her husband, a closeted homosexual, committed suicide.
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Stanley Kowalski goes out and gets drunk in celebration, and returns home.
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Stanley Kowalski finds a similarly drunk Blanche, lost in fantasies of soon-to-be happy times, benefit of Shep Huntleigh.
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Stanley Kowalski told him to get out or she'd scream fire, and he left.
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Stanley Kowalski was most famously portrayed by Marlon Brando opposite Jessica Tandy's Blanche in the play's initial Broadway production and, several years later, opposite Vivien Leigh with his Oscar nominated performance in the 1951 film adaptation.