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a street car named desired

The Unsympathetic Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Blanche DuBois is the most famous female character in A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams. It is an unusual observation to make about the heroine of the Pulitzer prize-winning play, A Streetcar Named Desire, but a very concise and perceptive characterization. Although Blanche is considered to be the principal character, she most often emerges as an unsympathetic character -- a selfish, proud woman, a sexual predator, who lives largely in a luxurious world of her own creation. Blanche DuBois is a difficult woman who would probably try the patience of Job with her theatrical hysterics, encouraging value judgments, and calculated deceit. It is interesting how she is presented as an unsympathetic character even though she is the primary objective of the play in the story.
Blanche DuBois arrives in New Orleans (on a streetcar named Desire) from Laurel Mississippi, for an extended visit with her sist...

Posted by: Joel Chibota

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