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- Eccentric- "uncertain manner"
- An outcast-"incongruous to the setting"
- Anxious-"sits in a chair very stiffly", "her glass, which shakes in her hand", "my-nerves broke", "nervously tamping cigarette"
- Animated-"speaks with feverish vivacity", "runs to her with a wild cry", "a mood of hysterical exhilaration came into her"
- Sensitive-"I can't be alone","something that suggests a moth"
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- Used as a symbol for the conventions of the Old and Deep South
- Oppose the conventions of the new industrialised world that Stanley holds
- She encaptures the consequences of being unable to adapt to ones surroundings or to accept societal reform
- To show the audience the significance of being able to move with change and adapting around change to live with it
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- Enters with white outfit-"white suit", "ear-rings of pearl, white gloves" so Blanche is initially introduced as pure
- Her purity and facade is revealed as we gradually hear of her past, causing her white gown to become "soiled and crumpled"
- Her mental state declines as the play progresses, especially just before and after scene ten where she is sexually abused-"Lurid reflections appear on the wall", "she is drinking to escape it", "sense of disaster closing in on her", "the music is in her head", "speaks with sudden hysteria"
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- She is Stella's sister, about "five years older"
- Come to New Orleans due to the loss of her old home, Belle Reve and is not financially stable
- Has a troubling past that catches up with her. Allen, her husband commits suicide, leaving her mentally, financially and maritally unstable
- She attempts to move on from her past and so attempts to find solace in Mitch, Stanley's best friend, who rejects her after he finds out about her past
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