Unlike most of my class it seemed, I enjoyed Blanche's character in A Streercar Named Desire. Maybe it was because I studied in character more in depth than most people in the class did. You had to look into her character and individually look at her actions and match those up with her stories that she tells. You have to follow the connections to really understand her and that's what makes it beautiful.
Blanche is extremely misunderstood. On the outside, most people did not like her character because she was ditzy and quite the drama queen. If you look further, you will find a really hurt woman who has no place in the world. Blanche has literally lost everything in her life. Her parents died, she lost the property she grew up on, her finance died very young after she found out he was gay, her sister moved away, and she lost her job. That is a lot for any person to handle, so can you really blame her for being a bit crazy? That woman has been through hell and back. Not to mention, she is homeless with no person in the world to care for her. We choose to fill our voids in different ways, and no one has any right to judge her for the way she chose to fill hers.
People just take her character face value and the way she acts. One doesn't ever stop to think about why she acts the way that she does.
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