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Masculinity in A Streetcar Named Desire

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Societal Expectations of Men

"YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL"

"I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack." -Stanley

"MAN UP!"

"BE A MAN"

Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher’s. (Stage direction, Scene one)

"The man of the house"

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Conclusion

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Stanley was used as a way to address certain issues in this time period. Literature/media in the late 1940s, early 1950s created this false sense of the "perfect American family" and displayed men as a way of power and control over the household.

THE IDEAL WORLD: 1950s

World War II

  • Time period just before Streetcar was written
  • Gender roles switch
  • Women taking responsibility (does not last long)

Post World War II

  • Women return to the home
  • Baby boomers
  • Husband/Dad works to provide for the family
  • Shift in masculinity
  • "Manly" to "Passionate manhood"
  • Communism/Cold War on the rise
  • The media
  • How women are viewed
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