Blanche

She had many ways to gussy up, Blanche always needed compliments and admiration to get throughout the day. Stella exclaims “and admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche” (Williams 33). In the dimness preferred “she smells sweet and appears on the outside” (Clough n.p.). Blanche owned pieces of clothing that seem to be expensive but really were just cheap pieces of clothing. Not so

character in this play I believe is Blanche, she is a women full of personality and plays a big role in this play. Her life was not going well for her back where she was living, so she thought the best solution was to live with her sister. Her sister Stella has a husband that turns out to dislike Blanche and vice versa. The husband Stanley is the reason Blanche is so uncomfortable living there especially because what he does to her near the end of the play. In the end Blanche is undergoing sum serious mental

fighting with a mental health condition known as schizophrenia all her life. The character Laura in The Glass Menagerie is always compared to Rose, because they were both socially awkward and very quiet girls. This may be true, but one can look at Blanche DuBois from A Street Car Named Desire shadows his sister’s life and characteristics more than Laura did. In the obituary of Rose Williams that was written by

image of themselves just to appear like nothing is wrong.One person that Blanche puts an act around is her sister Stella. Stella and Blanche have grown up together, so they have obviously spent time with each other. The reader clearly sees this during her visit with

BLANCHE DUBOIS: THE ANTITHESIS OF A MODERN WOMAN "Blanche DuBois, in 'A Streetcar Named Desire', is what a critic Ruby Cohn calls Williams' 'masterpiece contradiction'". (Bloom 70) Tennessee Williams is considered to be one of the most renowned playwrights of the twentieth century in American Literary History. As a playwright, he is best known for writing 'A Streetcar Named Desire', 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', and 'The Glass Menagerie'. Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire', focuses on the declining

depression, failure and disaster. During scene one, the audience is introduced to Blanche as Stella's sister, who is going to stay with her for a while. Blanch tries her best to act normal and hide her emotion from her sister, but breaks down at the end of scene

In the quote by Blanche in A Street Car Named Desire, "I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, Yes, magic! I try to give that to people." She tends to live in her own world, she says she does not want realism because she is afraid of the real world. She is very narcissistic, meaning she is obsessed with herself but more because she is obsessed with her outside appearance. She does not want realism she wants magic, meaning that she wants to escape reality and live in a world she makes up for herself

of the Play, Dubois arrives in New Orleans where she intends to stay with her estranged sister, Stella Kowalski. There is something timid about her demeanor, characterized by great “uncertainty” (Williams 15), suggesting the immediate apprehension Blanche experiences subsequently after arriving in New Orleans. Consequently, Williams immediately places an emphasis on the significance of her apprehension which begins to unveil itself as the narrative progresses. Prior to illustrating this, it is important

1 TO 2 pages react to either to blanche or stanley() A series of negative events, coupled with an immense feeling of guilty and the loss of affection, can drive anyone insane. In “A street car named desire”, Tennessee Williams displays Blanche DuBois as a very fragile individual. DuBois comes from a very privilege back ground, however loses everything. She does not understand basic human interaction, living out her life in a fantasy. Throughout the play, DuBois is slowly faced with the harshest

the same character traits are usual but anyone would find when observing the dissimilarities among the main characters of the movie “A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams” that people are not same. The movie’s main female characters are Blanche Dubois and Stella Kowalski. These sisters are very dissimilar in countless ways, from their behavior, and approach, to their views regarding the action of women. Although, they matured up together and were raised by the same people. Their relationship