She is also deceptive and is critical of her sister and brother-in-law. She is reluctant to be seen in the glare of light and seems to have a drinking problem. Stanley, in return, is suspicious of Blanche, does not care for her manners and resents her presence which is already interfering with his regimented but hedonistic lifestyle.įrom the first scene, Blanche is nervous and jittery. She finds Stanley loud and rough, eventually referring to him as "common". Blanche laments the shabbiness of her sister's two-room flat.
She is in her thirties and, with no money, has nowhere else to go.īlanche tells Stella that she has taken a leave of absence from her English-teaching position because of her nerves (which is later revealed to be a lie). Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Marlon Brando in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)Īfter the loss of her family home to creditors, Blanche DuBois travels from Laurel, Mississippi, to the New Orleans French Quarter to live with her younger married sister, Stella, and Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski.
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