In the book Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams did accomplish in making Blanche Dubois, the most sympathetic character in the story. To witnessing her husband in bed with another man, from losing her job and house to being raped by her sister’s husband can make one feel sensitive and compassionate towards others experiences, like Blanche Dubois. The other characters experiences cannot measure to the same trauma Blanche Dubois has went through and that correlates to making her appear to be the most sympathetic character the story.
The readers feel the way they do because of Blanche Dubois’s story. It starts with her coming to visit her sister Stella Dubois who is living with her husband Stanley Kowalski . At her stay at her sister's house it is clear Blanche Dubois gathers sympathy when we learn that she was abandoned by her sister. “I,I,I took the blows in my
…show more content…
When leading up to the rape Stanley “springs toward her, overturning the table. She cries out and strikes at him with the bottle top but he catches her wrist... He picks her inert figure and carries her to the bed.” After the fact that this occurs Blanche looks for comfort looks for someone believe her with what had occurred, she goes to stella maybe hoping she could help her, but we are surprised when we come to find out Stella “couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley.” This makes readers feel the way they do towards Blanche because when something this terrible happens, you’d expect family to be there for you but Stella would rather choose to not believe her sister, Blanche just to go on living with her husband Stanley. This physical trauma is something most people wouldn’t survive, especially going through it alone with no one tell help you and with no one believing you, not even