In A Streetcar Named Desire, discuss Williams' presentation of male and female characters in the Poker Night scene, and what it suggests about how...

In this
scene, men and women are presented as occupying different and distinct spheres, but there are
crossovers between the two which are significant in terms of illustrating the balance of power
in this particular household. The women, Blanche and Stella, remain in the bedroom while the
men, Stanley and his friends, are playing a noisy poker game in the kitchen. The kitchen appears
more of a public domain where men from outside the family can congregate, and Stanley
effectively banishes the women from this space, so that they retreat to the more private area of
the bedroom.

In their noisy, unrestrained, hearty poker game, the men might
appear to be dominant on this night, but both the women do challenge them. Their private talk is
loud enough to disturb Stanley, so that he shouts over to them: 'You hens cut out that
conversation in there!'  Stella defies him: 'This is my house and Ill talk as much as I want
to!' She might...