Stanley

In the first scene, Stanley Kowalski is described as a womanizer. “Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes. Since earliest manhood the center of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence, dependently, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens.” (page 29) Not only is Stanley rugged and rough, it is said that the thing he cares about most is getting what he wants from women.
Stella is attracted to Stanley a lot, and she thinks she is in love with him. In fact, she is carrying his baby. Stella tells Blanche about how whenever he gets back from his travels she cries in his lap. She obviously cares a lot more about him than he does about her. He seems indifferent to her, and like he doesn’t really care. A lot of the time, he is disrespectful to her. He keeps talking about the Napoleonic code, and what’s his wife’s is his. This seems very manly, in a bad way.
When he isn’t acting like he doesn’t care, he is being dominant over her. In the book, but mostly in the actual movie, Stanley was grabbing Stella a lot. He even yelled at Blanche the first time he met her. He is turning out to be a really aggressive person. At the end of scene three, he slaps Stella for turning on the radio. Stanley and Blanche also have a sexual tension between them that is uncomforting.