Beastly relations

Will Landschulz
Am Lit Per. 2
Mrs. LaMagdeleine

Blanche doesn't like Stanley at all.  Starting with her nigh-hysterical rant in Scene 4, he is apparently "common," doesn't have "any part of a gentleman's in his nature," "bestial," and several other derogatory metaphors likening him and his friends to a pack of apes.  She sees his drunken rages, and in fact all his other actions such as the (admittedly worrying) practice of grabbing your wife's slipper and smashing out the lights to create a romantic atmosphere instead the slightly more efficient expedient of turning out the light, slightly psychotic and scary.  She's at a loss to explain why her sister is swept off her feet by him, while she herself is hardly above reproach.  She repeatedly says that drink and money don't mean much to her, but continues to ask for both.  Somebody doth protest too much.  Also, for all her bemoaning the "epic fornications" of her male counterparts at Belle Reve, and all her abusing Stanley for his sexuality, she herself is not innocent of chaste Southern beauty.  She's met this rich married guy, this guy "Shaw" with whom she does not want to be associated, and (it's implied) several other guys in an attempt to pay the bills.  And she accuses Stella of being sexual.