Blog 4: claims

In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche is portrayed and characterized as very overtly aggressive. Throughout act 1 scene 1, Blanche throws some insults at her sister Stella, but Stella brushes it off because she knows that's how Blanche is. "But you- you've put on some weight, yes, you're just as plump as a little partridge! And it's so becoming to you!" (Williams, pg.12). When Blanche talks, she talks with uncertainty most of the time throughout act I scene I, but whens she has something insulting to say shes very courageous. "You hear me? I said stand up! You messy child you, you've spilt something on that pretty white lace collar! About your hair-you ought to have it cut in a feather bob with your dainty features!" (Williams, pg.12). Blanche merely belittles Stella with her judging and critics. Blanche shows signs of insecurity of herself and shes picking it on Stella now then how she was described in the first 2 pages. 

Also In the play, Blanche likes to take baths more often then a regular human being. "Now, then, let me look at you. But don't you look at me, Stella, no, no, no, not till later, not till I've bathed and rested! And turn that over-light off! turn that off! i wont be looked at in this merciless glare!" (Williams, pg. 10). All these baths that Blanche takes are a way to calm her nerves and wash all the pain she has dealt with. She tries to forget and shed her illicit past by bathing. Which also  represent her efforts to cleanse herself of her past. One stressful thing that she feels she needs a bath, is the lost of the big plantation they owned, Bella Reve. "I know, I know. But you are the one that abandoned Belle Reve, not I! I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!" (Williams, pg.15).