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Character Analysis

Section 1

Question 1. The character of Blanche is based on lies and fantasies to build on her personality.

However, the lies she tells are often very far from the truth such that the only things that could be

observed from her talks are the remains of a shallow, broken woman. For example, being an

aged, financially capable woman, she was only dependent on vestiges to boost her looks to try

charming less intelligent men. She got interested in character Mitch, not because she was in love

with him, but because in her imagination, she believed Mitch would assist her regain dignity and

respect, or even provide her with a home to hide and stay away from the rest of the world. In this

regard, Blanche lives in a fake world and lives a fake life under the disguise that she is

conservative, virtuous, and courteous. Her efforts to show the world things such as impeccable

clothing, charm and mannerisms, and ownership of sophisticated things are just but a shell of a

failure and an empty individual. Other than living in the fantasy of demeanor and high-society

woman, Blanche is just but a failure in reality.

Question 2. Stanley comes out as a passionate, solid, and often violent man. She does not

entertain the illusionary lifestyle Blanche is trying to live. When Blanche arrives, he feels

threatened by her presence and, therefore, feels the desire to step in and take control as a man.

This shows that he is a domineering and controlling character. However, he was often loyal to

his friends and very passionate to Stella as his wife. However, he was very cruel towards

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Blanche whom he felt was living a fake and disgusting kind of life. In this regard, he considers

himself a social leveler who is kind to those who are humane and real while detesting those who

are socially pretentious, such as Blanche. The other thing that he did was fighting in the Second

World War, which depicts him as courageous and somebody who is ready to sacrifice for the

welfare of the society and humanity. However, one thing that depicts him as a disturbing

degenerate was the instance where he beat the wife and then raped the sister-in-law without

feeling apologetic for the act.

Question 3. Stella is more concerned about her private and family life. She is more concerned

about the love she has for her husband Stanley. As much as she loves her sister Blanche, she

does not allow the hatred between her sister and husband to come to the fore. At one point, she

was torn between supporting her husband and her sister, upon Blanche’s arrival. However, she

eventually chose to be on the side of the husband because she was madly in love with him. She is

a mild character who loves to live a modest and quiet life away from the fast-moving world. She

chooses to deny the accusations leveled against her husband and even dismiss the fact that

Stanley raped Blanche. Her denial of reality of the fact that the husband was violent and even

went ahead to rape her sister implies that, to some extent, she shares a character with her sister

who does not want to accept reality.

Section 2

Question 1. Blanche and Stanley exhibit stereotypic gender behavior in the sense that Blanche

believes that she can only use men to create an image about her to the society. She gives herself

randomly to younger men to make her feel successful and younger. She has no love for men but

only uses them to achieve her desires. She even feels that she failed her young husband who had

died. On the other hand, Stanley has no respect for women and believes that they can just be

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used, manipulated, and controlled at will. He was often violent to the wife who was madly in

love with her. He never respected his sister-in-law because he ended up raping her

unapologetically.

Question 2. The fact that Blanche never took men serous and only used them for her advantage

made her appear a failure and an empty individual. This is because to attract the attention of such

men, she had to live an illusionary and pretentious lifestyle to please the people around. This

brought her downfall because people eventually disrespected and disowned her when the reality

about her was known. On the other hand, Stanley’s behaviors brought his downfall in the sense

that his lack of respect for women made her handle them like objects, which eventually made her

rape Blanche. That was such a despicable act that greatly maligned his character and image.

Question 3. As a less aggressive character, Stella had no choice but to stay with her violent

husband under the idea that she was madly in love. As much as she loved the sister, she chose to

defend the husband because she felt the love she had for him was much stronger. She even chose

to deny the fact that Stanley had raped Blanche. Being a young lady, I think that her feelings

went beyond her reasoning and what she valued the most at the moment was feelings and love.

The other reason for staying with Stanley is that she was already pregnant with Stanley’s child

and felt that she was more attached to him because of that pregnancy.

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