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[Two men come around the corner, Stanley Kowalski and Mitch. They are about twenty-eight or thirty years old, roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes. Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher's. They stop at the foot of the steps.] STANLEY [bellowing]: Hey, there! Stella, Baby!
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As Blanche is led away, Stella abruptly decides to leave Stanley. The twist was dictated by the film industry, which demanded that Stanley be punished in some way for the rape. Subsequent film and TV versions have restored the original, bleaker ending, in which Stella remains with her husband.
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Stanley’s animosity toward Blanche manifests itself in all of his actions toward her—his investigations of her past, his birthday gift to her, his sabotage of her relationship with Mitch. In the end, Stanley’s down-to-earth character proves harmfully crude and brutish.
Kazan attempted to soften Stanley’s character not by toning down the rape scene but by making him appear guilty in the next scene. Rather than sitting passively at the poker table, Stanley answers the door and speaks to the doctor in a contrite fashion.
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Many critics have pointed out that Stanley is part of a new America, one comprised of immigrants of all races with equal opportunity for all. Blanche, however, is clinging to a dying social system of “aristocrats” and “working class” that is no longer applicable in the 1940s.
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