The Character of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Name

Blanche, the main character in Williams hightail it A Streetcar Named Desire invokes many contrasting emotions. To analyze unmatcheds emotions concerning Blanche is no easy task, to do so effectively one must(prenominal) break the play into different parts and analyze them separately. The problem with Blanche is that she presents a character so mixed up in her own motives and opinions that one never knows if it is really her or an act shes putting on. The audience will find itself constantly readjusting its position towards Blanche and the other characters as the play unfolds and we learn more about her story and the indicates behind her inadequacies. Williams makes sure nobody is white or black but grey so that at some moments in the play we struggle to find a reason for her cool manipulation and hunger for power while at others we forbearance her pathetic life founded on lies and misconceptions. Even when she tries to break up Stanley and Stellas relationship we dont immedi ately brand her as a villain, we remember that if Stella hadnt left than maybe Blanche would have become what she had wanted to become rather than what society dictated her to become. When we see Blanche for the very beginning(a) time we know right away that she does not belong in Stellas neighborhood, she is daintily dressed and her delicate beauty must quash a strong light, she seems in a fairly psychoneurotic state but we can assume thats just prevalent since she is incongruous to this setting. She seems to be having trouble speaking normally to a black person so that we can already place the filiation of her upbringing in the South, probably in one of those enormous mansions that housed fecund slave owning white families. As the scene unfolds, the image of the rich, somewhat shelte... ...e cerebration about her and the play they will feel sympathy or at least pity for Blanche. What Williams demonstrates with this play is the power of memories and the ruthlessness of soc iety. Works Cited and Consulted Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will. young York Bantam Books, 1975. Dworkin, Andrea. Intercourse. New York The Free Press, 1087 Lant, Kathleen Margaret. A Streetcar Named Misogyny. pp. 225-238 in REDMOND. Redmond, jam (Editor). Violence in Drama. Cambridge University Press 1991. Spoto, Donald. The Kindness of Strangers. Boston Little, Brown and Company, 1985. Williams, Edwina Dakin. withdraw Me to Tom. St. Louis Sunrise Publishing Company, 1963. Williams, Tennessee. Memoirs. New York Doubleday and Company, Inc 1975. Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York Signet. master copyright 1947.