A Street Car named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams. Character sketch of Blanche DuBois Blanche DuBois is one of the main characters of Williams’ famous play. The play has an array of symbolic but minor other characters, which enhance the uniqueness of the main character, like Stella Kowalski and her husband Stanley Kowlaski and Harold “Mitch” Mitchell. The story revolves around the last two daughters of an old Southern dynasty The DuBois’. Blanche is the epitome of the …

…bitter because her dishonesty had encompassed her truth. Blanche is so unstable but it is really hard not to like her, we can form camaraderie with her character because she was very human. Her flaws were just more magnified than the rest of us and she tried her best to find happiness but fate would not deal her a fair hand. Her helplessness is so apparent that, she seems far more tragic than the Greeks.