Blanche DuBois

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Personality

Role

  • A storyteller
  • when she tells the story of her first husband to Mitch
  • Dramatic
  • 'her appearance is incongruous to this setting', 'placing the rhinestone tiara on her head'
  • Unsettled
  • 'nervously', 'stiffly', 'hysterically', 'Blanche gives a piercing cry'
  • She is a fading Southern Belle
  • The protagonist
  • Enters and poses trouble for Stella and Stanley
  • There is a competition of who gets Stella
  • Blanche disrupts the peace and 'easy intermingling' of New Orleans with her old American beliefs
  • She is significant because there is the juxtaposition of her old American beliefs but then she herself isn't married, doesn't have children, was a prostitute
  • She is the result of harsh standards that can be difficult to attain

Development (Growth & change)

Other information              

  • As her lies start to catch up with her, adverbs like 'nervously' and 'jittery' increase
  • She eventually believes her daydreams
  • Shep Huntley coming to rescue her
  • The new vs the old
  • Madonna/Whore theory
  • Plastic theatre with the use of Varsouviana

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