How Is Blanche A Sympathized

Dubois shows a mixed array of actions that confuses the audience into whether she is to be sympathized or not. At the beginning of the play, the author Tennessee Williams shows us the arrogant and demanding side of Blanche, provoking the audience to dislike her, but as the play goes on, Williams gradually reveals more about Blanche’s troublesome past, making the audience sympathize her more.
Blanche arrives at the Kowalski household— Elysian Fields, dressed fancily. “She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and ear-rings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district.” (p.3) This quote immediately shows us the difference between Blanch and the people from New Orleans by the type of clothes that they wear. Everything that she wears is white,
When Blanche arrives at the Kowalski Household, Stella and Stanley had been out, but Eunice kindly offers to let her in their house. Eunice starts chatting to Blanche, but she only gets short answers like ‘yes’. This shows that Blanche isn’t interested in talking to Eunice at all even though it was Eunice who had let her in. Instead of showing back kindness to Eunice, she also tells Eunice rudely bluntly in the quote “What I meant was I’d like to be left alone.” (p.5), that she would like her to leave. After Eunice leaves, Blanche spots a whisky bottle. The quote “She springs up and crosses to it, and removes a whisky bottle. She pours a half tumbler of whisky and tosses it down. She carefully replaces the bottle and washes out the tumbler at the sink.” shows us that Blanche, knowing that nothing here is her property, still intently took Stanley’s whisky. When Blanche starts talking to Stella, she