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Discuss the audience’s reaction to Blanche DuBois throughout the play and decipher the
significant of “storm – all storm”
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“A
Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams features a woman who arouses curiosity
since she is first introduced in Scene 1, as “there is something about her uncertain manner”
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In agreement with the French definition of her name, Blanche’s clothes in her introductory
paragraph inspire thoughts of whiteness, innocence, and elegance
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This puzzling appearance is the first of many that will evolve in
the play
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As the play progresses, more signs of Blanche’s manipulative skills emerge, and especially in
the first scene when she criticizes her sister Stella for leaving Belle Reve and leaving her
behind to witness all their relatives’ deaths and losses
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A new image of Blanche is created in the second scene, when she begins to openly flirt with
her sister’s husband Stanley
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During the time that he questions her vague information about the loss of Belle
Reve, she “sprays herself with her atomizer, then playfully sprays him with it” to ease the
situation and distract Stanley from what he was reproaching her for
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At this point, the reader is beginning to view Blanche in a negative light,
and her careful attempt at keeping a pure image of herself is no longer convincing
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She does this by constantly asking Stella
and Stanley’s friends about her physical appearance; usually fishing for compliments
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In the fifth scene, a young man
approaches the door to collect for a newspaper company called The Evening Star, and
Blanche says to him, “I want to kiss you – just once, softly and sweetly on your mouth”,
despite the fact that he is a complete stranger
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As stated in her introductory paragraph, Blanche “must avoid strong light”, because she is
later discovered to be a bearer many secrets
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Stanley represents the
“strong light” that Blanche must evade, because when he discovers about her shameful past,
she is almost completely driven out of her sanity
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Mitch is a character in the play whose role holds a massive responsibility for Blanche’s loss
of hope in her love life and thus resort to fantasy
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I want magic!” As the nearly insane character she
is, Blanche begins to speak of a non-existent character named Shep Huntleigh, who will
apparently take her away on vacation
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The closing scene of the play consists of what may be the strongest indication of all of
Blanche’s flaws put together; her insecurity, her sexual and emotional deprivation, and
finally her show of affection towards strangers
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In these last pages of the
play, the female nurse attempts to get Blanche to follow her outside the apartment
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I want to be – left alone
– please!”
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