ENGL 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Paperboy

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 314
• Professor: Sean Carney

Document Summary

Stanley starts to mean something different over the course of the play. He starts out representing strength in an ambiguous way, he becomes more brutal and at the end of the play, the strength that he displays become more distasteful and appalling. He represses other people in order to maintain power and control in his space. In the second last scene of the play, stella wants to leave stanley, she wants out of the whole situation but then stanley stops her from doing so, he keeps her trapped. At the end of the play she only gets to leave on stanley"s terms. There"s a negative response from most people towards stanley in the play, he"s a real bully by the ending of the play; he insists on exerting his strength and throwing it around. After the poker scene when he attacks stella, stanley has a moment where he goes out, rips his shirt and yells stella!