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For the Due South character, see Stanley Kowalski. For the wrestler, see Stan Kowalski.

Fictional character

Stanley Kowalski is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire.

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In the play

Stanley lives in the working-classFaubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans with his wife, Stella (née DuBois), and is employed as a factory parts salesman. He was an Army engineer in World War II, having served as a Master Sergeant.

He is a controlling, hard-edged man, with no discernible capacity for empathy, forgiveness, or patience, and no apparent family ties of his own, although he once mentions a cousin. He also has a vicious temper and fights with his wife, sometimes leading to instances of domestic violence, which mirror those of the older married couple who live upstairs, the Hubbells.

Near the beginning of the play, Stanley announces that Stella is pregnant.

Stanley's life becomes more complicated when Stella's sister Blan