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- Despite Stanley's abusive behavior in A Streetcar Named Desire, Stella stays with him due to her deep love and sexual attraction towards him, which often blinds her to his maltreatment. She is emotionally dependent on Stanley and finds it difficult to envision life without him.
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A Streetcar Named Desire ends with the aftermath of Stanley’s climactic rape of Blanche. Stella, now a mother, has committed Blanche to a state-run mental institution, taking the rape accusation as evidence her sister has gone insane.
Just as Stanley had cried, “Stella! Stella!” to get Stella to come back, Stella calls her sister’s name, but Blanche does not return. And Stella does not chase after her. Instead, Stella holds her baby, accepting her future rather than her past.
Why does Stella choose Stanley whose background is totally different from hers? Stella holds passionate live to Stanley and also she thinks that Stanley can provide her with steady life and fulfill her sexual desire and give her sensual pleasure.
By having Blanche committed to a mental institution, thus choosing Stanley, Stella seems to be displaying her practical side, which prompted her to escape the bankrupt Belle Reve life years ago and reminds her she now has a dependent child to support.
Stanley dominates Stella: she is drawn into the magnetic pull of his powerful physical presence. By modern-day standards, Stella is the victim of domestic violence, but in the play, her decision to return to Stanley even after he hits her is not judged as definitively right or wrong.
As Stella, Stanley, and Mitch soon learn, Blanche’s wanton acts of desire are indeed what led to her expulsion from life in Laurel, Mississippi. In fact, her family’s attitude toward desire began to push her toward her present predicament even before she was born.
