Scoop verses Stanley.
Scoop is Heidi’s antagonist. He thinks with his hormones and is very overpowering. At the same time he is smart and calculating. He doesn’t just do something irrationally but thinks it through. Stanley is more impulsive in his actions. He likes to just let loose or get drunk and yell at people. He even rapes (or at least overpowers) Blanche, which is something Scoop would not do. He is more the type of guy that tries to seduce a woman verbally. At the beginning of the Heidi Chronicles he provokes Heidi so much that she goes for him even though it clearly looks like she despises him. He has a way of irritating women and challenging them intellectually in order to get their attention. Stanley isn’t characterized as a very smart person. He is there with his polish/southern accent and people focus more on his body than on what he has to say. He isn’t dumb, as he figures out that there is something wrong with Blanche and that she’s lying about her situation, but he tends to repeat the words he thinks sound smart, as for example ‘acquaintance’.
Another characteristic feature of Scoop’s is that he likes to rate things on a scale of A to F, showing that he’s had experience with education and is shaped in a way that he rates a value of each thing while talking. Stanley on the other hand hasn’t gone to university and is said to be very simple and not greatly wealthy or educated.
Something that does make them similar is that they have a way of being involved with at least two women in the story. They seem irresistible and THE man to have disregarding their unfortunate character traits. They are both involved with the protagonist, but they aren’t exactly happy together in the end. Stanley and Scoop are in a way antagonist because they oppose the protagonist’s ideas and lead them to failure.
Two men, two different characters, but they’re still very similar. There’s just something about their rudeness and lack of sensibility towards a woman that makes them look alike.
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