[Stanley comes out of the bathroom dripping water and still in his clinging wet polka dot drawers.] STANLEY: Stella! [There is a pause] My baby doll’s left me! [He breaks into sobs. Then he goes to the phone and dials, still shuddering with sobs.] Eunice? I want my baby. [He waits a moment; then he hangs up and dials again] Eunice! I’ll keep on ringin’ until I talk with my baby!
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 3. While Blanche takes baths to escape from reality, Stanley’s shower sobers him up and snaps him back to the real world. After his pregnant Stella takes refuge upstairs with Eunice following Stanley’s brutality, he sobs and screams out his wife’s name over and over from the foot of the stairs. He phones Eunice and pleads for his wife to return to him. Stanley the wife-beater is now become the vulnerable and pathetic male without his Stella.