#1
When you first meet the two sisters Stella and Blanche you can tell instantly that both sister are very different and have different ways of living.
Stella lives to please her husband. She seems to brush off his faults and give reasons to why he does the things he does. Stella lets her husband Stanley runs her life she is there at his ever beck and call. I feel like Stanley doesn’t treat Stella the way she should be treated. He’s mean and ruff with her, and he only apologize when he realizes that he has gone too far.
Blanche is very proper and thinks of herself as an upper class person. She tells people what is on her mind and wants to be treated as if she was a queen. I can also see that she may have a bit of a drinking problem.
#2
Blanche seems to be hiding something from her sister and the people she meets. It feels like she is not telling the truth about herself.
I feel this because she seems to be putting up a front, or some kind of wall. I could sense this from the way she would dress, talk, the vague stories she would tell of the life she lived before staying with her sister Stella. Her whole being seems like a lie. To me Blanche doesn’t want people to know the real her.
#3
I feel sorry for Blanche; she spent so many years of being alone and lost in the world without love. To me that was what she was looking for; she was looking for someone to love her, someone that she could love back. After her young husband committed suicide she spent the rest of her life wandering around looking for that warm embraces even if it was just for one night. Because of that she was well know back home in her town.
She made up stories and lied so that her life would seem fancy, full of glitz and glamour but in reality she lived an unhappy lonely life that was full of sadness, heart ace, and a really bad drinking problem.
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I agree... I feel like Blanche was sort of driven crazy because of her constant mistreatment. She had a terrible life in her home town and came to her sister as an escape, but all she recieved was more neglect. If she had gotten the care she was so desperate for I think that her ending would be a much happier one.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you in 2nd journal you wrote. I do think that Blanche is hindign something from people and she is not honest about herself
ReplyDeleteI felt sorry for Blanche as well, but no one can throw themselves into other people's hands, (even family members' hands,) and live in a fake, glitzy world at that age and expect to get away with it. She definitely had something coming, some sort of realization, though Stanley's idea may have not the been the best help for her situation. Then again, what else could the man have done? This terribly annoying, rude woman just barged in on him and his wife's marriage, they were on there way to making they're own family. There was no way Blanche could have stayed. Imagine if Stella had had the baby and Blanche was still living there? That would have been insane.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you that Blanche was full of sorrow and heartache. It's really too bad that someone could become that unhappy.