Character sketch of Blanche DuBois

Blanche DuBois is one of the main characters of Williams' famous play. The play has an array of symbolic but minor other characters, which enhance the uniqueness of the main character, like Stella Kowalski and her husband Stanley Kowlaski and Harold "Mitch" Mitchell.

The story revolves around the last two daughters of an old Southern dynasty The DuBois'. Blanche is the epitome of the southern charm. While Stella her sister is the polar opposite, who marries a working class Stanley Kowalski and severs almost all her connections to her illustrious primogenitors.

Blanche's character has varying shades of delusions and inferiority, which were probably ingrained in her by her deep Southern upbringing that emphasized these weaknesses in females. She was to follow the example set probably by her mother to live like the lady of the house supported by her husband. Which was a very wrong stance to have when you are on the verge of a defunct dynasty and endless debt brought upon by squandering away all the family fortunes. Her efforts to keep the pomp and the fanfare proved too meager

The husband who was a homosexual and his apparent suicide because of discovery were unimaginable to her. His death had led her in to a spiral of promiscuity probably to fill the chasm created by such a tragedy. All her encounters were anonymous and she filled death with desire to balance the misery of it all. In her reality she had taken a leave of absence from her school, not the fact that she was having a liaisons with one of her student; that she had left The Flamingo because of its squalid interior but because she was driven out by her flagrant prostitution.

Her whole life was marred by death and processions of Men which some how boosted her self-esteem and she envied her sister's marital life, because even though it was floundering, it was more solid than life had ever been for her. Stella's pregnancy was like a blatant attack on her femininity as if it somehow belittled her existence. Her inability to come to terms with her own mortality and her age reflect how insecure she is, probably because of her objectification as an article of sexual gratification. It was like if Einstein had been told his mind was turning in to mush. She no longer views herself vital if she looks old or mature, because that would mean that she had lost her innocence as well. Her sense of self had somehow dissipate

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Approximate Word count = 879
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)