Describe How Tennessee williams entices his audience with Blanches entrance in 'A street car named desire'
...nvironment and that already there is tension in the house. Tennessee Williams wants to inform the reader early on that Blanche is alienated form her natural surroundings so when she moves over to the cabinet and has a glass of whisky the audience isn’t really surprised but when Stella enters Blanche immediately rushes to the drinks cabinet, once she has drunk this Stella offers her another drink and Blanche replies “No, ones my limit” this makes it obvious to the reader that Blanche is lying because we have already seen her have her second drink and that she is not a trust worthy or a stable character. Blanche is happy to see Stella but we can tell by her language throughout this scene that she is in a confused state of mind “what am I saying! I didn’t mean to say that.” Blanche constantly retracts what she is saying. Blanche repeatedly says “and” showing that she is speaking without really thinking because she keeps adding to her thoughts. I feel that her use of rhetorical questions shows that she blames her self a little for loosing ‘Belle Reve’ which in itself is ironic being the French for ‘beautiful dream’. Blanches language is very contradictory, this is shown by in one speech she calls Stella ‘Miss Stella’, ‘Honey’ and simply ‘Stella!’ showing that he...