Steve Hubbell Steve Hubbell is Eunice's husband, and owner of the apartment building. Blanche is the protagonist of the play. Tragic flaw created from the superiority of men, ultimately leading to her metaphorical death. In both England and America, the name Dubois has been translated as wood. She currently combines clinical training in medicine with academic training. After their first meeting Stanley develops a strong dislike for Blanche and… 1406 Words 6 Pages Mr.
Promiscuity though wasn't the only problem she had. Her past, henceforth, represents the death of her lies, a death that her vulnerable, fragile character cannot escape from. Before moving to New Orleans she was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi. Her illusions had no place in the Kowalski world and when the illusions were destroyed, Blanche was also destroyed. Blanche has plenty of weaknesses. She must live in the quiet, half-lit world of charm and illusion. Blanche tries to continue being the Southern belle of her youth, but she is too old and has seen too much, and soon her grip on reality begins to slip.
She is cultured and intelligent. She became promiscuous, seeking a substitute men especially young boys , for her dead husband, thinking that she failed him sexually. She has difficulty understanding the passion in her sister's marriage and is coolly calculating in her relationship with Mitch - yet barely manages to suppress a latent nymphomania. In , Blanche performs an ultrasound on and informs them that the baby is healthy. Stanley tells her that it will be all right once again between them as soon as Blanche leaves. She could not possibly effectively refute against him in front of Stella. She explains that she has come for avisit because her nerves are shattered from teaching.
She has been through a lot in her past which has driven her to become the person she is today and she is the one who ended up alone as opposed to Stella. Blanche is happy to hear this and starts scheduling. By coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty, but had two people in it. Her need to act young also displays her paranoia of ageing. Does Williams condemn her for this? However, Blanche was strikingly different than her sister from the moment she was born.
She experiences numerous things, and has certain dynamics that solidify her tragic elements. Stanley rapes Blanche, assuming that she has slept with so many men in the past, one more would not matter. Blanche is nervous and appears constantly on edge, as though any slight disturbance could shatter her sanity. A Young Collector The Young Collector comes to collect money for the paper. Blanche escaped and began to study magic and spells, and learned that she and Ruby were equals in their power. This was the Elizabethan era, In the Elizabethan era it was very different in the way we live our lives today.
It is highlighted that not only does Blanche feel there are there vast differences in standards of living, but between fantasy and reality. Immediately following this event, Blanche was subjected to a series of deaths in her family and the ultimate loss of the ancestral home. To escape from these brutalities and to escape from the lonely void created by her young husband's death, Blanche turned to alcohol and sexual promiscuity. Having failed in convincing her own sister, Stella, that Stanley raped her, a doctor and a matron come from an asylum to take her away. He attacked her fantasies about the rich boyfriend at a time when she was most emotionally unstable. But does she measure up to the hype? Dubois is a topographic name for someone who lived in a wood.
All of this, cumulatively, weakened Blanche, turned her into an alcoholic, and lowered her mental stability bit-by-bit. Suddenly in the middle of the dance the boy I had married broke away from me and ran out. This victory attaches itself to the superiority to men, and evident factor portrayed by the dependence of man both for survival and self-image; a dependence that Blanche lacks, and undoubting seeks as she rides down the tracks of the streetcars named Desire and Cemeteries. Thus, in her first encounters, she fails with Stanley, because she attempts to be what she thinks a lady should be rather than being frank, open, and honest as Stanley would have liked it. She works alongside in a few cases. His mother is dying, and this impending loss affects him profoundly.
This victory attaches itself to the superiority to men, and evident factor portrayed by the dependence of man both. She had many ways to gussy up, Blanche always needed compliments and admiration to get throughout the day. She cannot wantonly give herself to someone for whom she has an affection. It is not important whether she truly loves Mitch or not but more like a means of a way out the trap she finds herself in. Nevertheless, they bond over their lost loves, and when the doctor takes Blanche away against her will, Mitch is the only person present besides Stella who despairs over the tragedy.
Her lies are what keep her sense of propriety realistic. But, later, when Blanche orchestrates a telegram to the supposedly rich and adoring Shep Huntleigh, it looks as though her fantasies are going overboard. But Blanche also realizes that she must attract men with her physical body. There was no place for her illusions to exist in the Elysian Fields and the world of Stanley Kowalski and once her illusions were destroyed, she was destroyed too. A crown for an impress! Her character exhibits the natural wants and demands of a adult female in her temperament. Stella and Blanche have a very complicated relationship.