Tessy Diaz Journal Entry 1 (A Street Car Named Desire)

Journal Entry 1 (A Street Car Named Desire)

As I began to read the drama, I started to learn more about Blanche DuBois character you find out that she is a schoolteacher from Laurel Mississippi, and she moved to New Orleans into an apartment with her sister, Stella Kowalski. You can tell immediately that she intends to live in Stella’s apartment for a lengthy period of time, given the large trunk she has with her. When Stella comes home and greets Blanche you can automatically tell that Blanche needs to tell Stella something very important. However before she tells Stella that she lost Belle Reve, their ancestral home following the death of all their remaining relatives, and that she was given a leave of absence from her teaching position because of her “bad nerves”. She criticizes Stella on the way she lives, she is disdainful of the cramped quarters of the Kowalskis two- room apartment and of the apartments location in a noisy, diverse, working-class neighborhood. This is ironic because she has to live with Stella because she doesn’t have enough money to afford a hotel. Blanches criticisms immediately wins her the instant dislike of Stella husband, an auto-parts supply man of polish descent named Stanley Kowalski. Stanley distrusts Blanche immediately because he suspects her of having cheated Stella out of her share of the family inheritance. While Stanley is questioning Blanche, Blanche ends up revealing that she lost Belle Reve because she couldn’t pay the mortgage. She blames this on having to pay for all the funerals of her realtives, without Stella’s help. All of this signifies Blanches horrible financial circumstances. Blanches heavy drinking which she attempts to conceal from her sister and brother-in-law, might foreshadows the next events that take place in this drama, and that fact that Stanley and Blanche already have dueling personalities.

- Tessy Diaz