Blanche Dubois

Blanche's sister, Stella Kowalski, lives with her husband in New Orleans. When Blanche and Stella first see each other in Stella's apartment, Blanche's anxious and babbling behavior is off-putting, and it worries Stella. "No coke, honey," Blanche tells Stella, "not with my nerves tonight" (Williams 11). Blanche's judgmental tone when she criticizes Stella's home is obvious to Stella. But Blanche does not stop her needling: "But you - you put on some weight, yes, you're just a plump as a little partridge" (Williams 14), to which Stella takes offense. Blanche's inability to censor her thoughts to the one person who loves her unconditionally serves as one of the factors that push apart the two sisters. Though Stella worries about Blanche, she is also driven away from her, furthering Blanche's isolation and affecting Stella's final decision about B

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Approximate Word count = 794
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)

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