My first claim is that Stanley seems like a rough sarcastic guy. He tends to have a careless vibe in a way and his ego plays a part in that. Blanche "no i rarely touch it" Stanley "some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often" (18). It looks like he's trying to let her know that he's not stupid and he knows that she does drink and she doesn't need to put on an act. Blanche was talking to stanley about her looks and he told her a situation that he was in with a girl who said she was the glamorous type and Stanley said "So what?" (26) This shows the careless side of him, like he doesn't have any interest in that and he knew the girl was trying to be stuck up so his ego came out to try and hurt the girl or shut her down with what he said.
My second claim is that Blanches name means pure, white and innocent but her personality contradicts that. She seems like a really loose and easy woman. In the play she asks stanley to help her button up the back of her dress and she says things like, "...that was why, when you walked in here last night, i said to myself, My sister has married a man."(27) I think this was a flirtatious move in a way. After this she sees her sister and tells her "I called him a little boy and laughed and flirted. yes i was flirting with your husband!"(30) She tells her sister that she flirted with her husband, honestest is always good but just the fact that she did flirt shows that she's not the innocent type of woman. She also asks to drink. Blanche "...open you pretty mouth and talk while i look around for some liquor"(10). She just seems like a drunk and a liar from the previous quote because she tells Stanley that she doesn't drink and in this quote she's looking for some.
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