A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) [Hero's Journey / Monomyth basic deconstruction]

 

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New World: Blanche arrives.

Fish out of Water: Blanche asks for directions.

Supernatural Aid: searching for Stella.

New World: Stella's World.

Supernatural Aid: meeting Stella

Resisting the Call: come say Hello to Stanley, not now, not now.

First Threshold:  Blancd tells Stella she lost the house.

Middle Cave / allies and enemies: Blanche meets Stanley.

Inner Cave: Blanche's married; the boy died.

Belly of the Whale: Stanley thinks that Blanche is swindling Stella; the Napoleonic Code; what really happened to the house?

Rupture: the poker game.

Road of Trials 1: Meeting Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell at the poker game; Blanche pulls Harold to her.

Road of Trials 2: Stanley breaks the radio and hits Stella; begs for forgiveness, shouts for her; Harold meets Blanche in the dark.

Road of Trials 3: Blanche tells Stella that she married the wrong man; Stanley overhears; Stanley enters.

Devolved State: Stella runs into Stanley's arms.

New Self / New Clothes: Stanley in a suit.

Foreshadow: Stanley asks Blanche if she knows someone named Shaw; Blanche asks Stella what she's heard about her; Stella waits on Blanche; Blanche promises to go; the young man collecting for the Star walks through the door.

Seizing the Sword: Harold takes Blanche dancing; then to dinner; then asks her to marry him.

Near Death Experience: Blanche killed her young love.

Atonement with the Father: Stanley has found out all about Blanche.

Apotheosis: Stella talks to Stanley in an insulting tone.

Ultimate Boon: honey, it'll be alright once she goes and once you've had the baby.

Pushed Back to the Old World: the tickets back to Orio.

Refusal: Stella tells Stanley that he didn't need to do that.

Harold turns up and tells Blanche he doesn't want to sell her anymore; I was up the spout - my youth was all played out. He kisses her; she wants to marry him but she's not clean enough for him now.

Magic Flight: Blanche hides inside and loses her mind.

Rescue from Without: Stanley tells Blanche that there is no millionaire coming to rescue her.

Pulled into the Final Conflict: whaddayou think, that I want to interfere with you..well maybe you'd be good to interfere with.

New Self: Stanley in a hawaiian shirt; Blanche treats Stella like a maid more and more.

Inner Resolve: the doctors arrive.

Freedom to Live: Stella leaves Stanley.

 

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