The psychology of males who are abusive to women: Analysing A Streetcar Named Desire

There are different types of abuse such as sexual, emotional, physical and more but from what I have read and seen, Mr. Stanley Kowalski is more emotionally abusive. These men tend to intimidate, humiliate (Scene 8), threat, blame and sometimes isolate their partners from the outer world. Abusers can control it and don’t do it when it wouldn’t benefit them, so it’s not like a type of sickness which can’t be controlled; it’s all in their mind. Many times they aren’t ashamed of being abusive but they don’t say it. They say it in another way, for example, “Yes, sometimes I slap her to put her on her place”. Abusers are more anxious, nervous, irritable, excitable, moody, defensive, self-centered, and hasty. The social class difference between Blanche and Stanley is what irritates him and makes him what he is. Blanche insulting him in an indirect way bothers him.