His recklessness is part of his Stella charm. Although this type of relationship goes against her childhood, she is honest about her desires. “I'm not in anything I want to get out of,” Stella continually tells Blanche who formulates a fantasy of getting money from an old lover to escape. Stella understands the compromise. She is realistic. He sees Stanley's gambling, drinking, and violent outbursts as "his pleasure, like hers in movies and bridge." He believes that people "must accept other people's habits." Cleaning up Stanley's violent attacks is just part of living with him. Unlike Blanche, he knows that life is not a fairy tale, negotiations must be reached. Stella is proof of the statement that "there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark, that make everything else seem irrelevant." He lives in a decrepit house, full of broken glass, part of the noisy part of town, and yet it is so