Compare One Character from Streetcar Named Desire with Another from Death of a Salesman, Who Are Both the Cause of Their Troubles

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Character comparisons; Comparing two characters, one from Streetcar Named Desire and another from Death of a Salesman Streetcar Named Desire Blanche Du Bois In the Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is first introduced having dressed in white and symbolizing chastity and innocence. As sensitive, aristocratic, and refined as it is, the beauty depicts an appearance resembling a moth. Blanche comes from a background that is aristocratic. Her job, as an English teacher, as well as her home are all lost and in turn, she comes to stay in her sister’s house for a while, Stella, who stays with her husband Stanley, a coarse polish. Her lover passed away and since then she has changed her life completely. Blanche is seen to be a misfit in the apartment of Kowalski due to her nervous and refined nature. Blanche has spent the rest of her life in Laurel with her family that had aristocratic roots and from which she learned the finer things and issues in life. She is incapable of coping with the life outside Laurel, a life that gives her a lesson on how a tragic event can participate in ruining the future. She is flighty and unrealistic because she refuses to move out of the time warp and hence get used to the real world. As young as sixteen, she slobbers in love with a sensitive boy, whom she worships and elopes with. According to her understanding and believe, life with Allan had turned sheer bliss. However, her faith turns fully shattered as she realizes that he was bisexual degenerate. This disguised her so much to an extent that she expressed the disappointment in him, prompting Allan to commit suicide. Blanche is now incapable of getting over the incidence and as a result holds herself responsible for Allan’s sudden death. Long vigils come after his death, at the bedside of her relatives whom passes away. With no option, she sells the mansion of the family, Belle

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