Blanche is addicted to alcohol but she tries to hide the fact that she is.
Stanley:” Have a shot? “
Blanche:” No, I-rarely touch it “
Stanley:” Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often “.
Before this conversation Blanche poured herself a drink with out asking anyone, she tried to deny the truth by saying that she hardly ever drinks.
Stella is Blanches younger sister and is about five years younger than Blanche; Miss DuBois tells every one that she is younger than Stella. In scene three Blanche lies about her age to Mitch.
Blanche:” Yes Stella is my precious little sister. I call her little in spite of the fact she’s somewhat older than I. Just slightly. Less than a year”.
She thinks that if she tells every one that she is young, men would be attracted to her and she would be thought of as a pretty young women.
Blanche like to have a romantic atmosphere by using dim lightning and paper lanterns, as in scene three she asks Mitch to do her a favour and put up a paper lantern for her.
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Blanche: “will you do a favour for me?”
Mitch: “sure. What?”
Blanche: “I bought this adorable little coloured paper lantern at a Chinese shop in Bourbon. Put it over the light bulb! Will you, please?”
Blanche is a very confidant, educated and poshly dressed so-called ‘Teacher’. She is snobbish about her sister’s home and lies to every one that she meets including her own sister. Blanch is taken to the Mental hospital. This shows that she was a mad character.
