From the very beginning of the play readers are given an image of Blanche which is very aristocratic. She is portrayed as someone who was raised very wealthy. We also come to find out that her money is old and nearly. Although she is no longer the affluential tycoon of her former days, she would still like to pretend that she is of another class than everyone around. I tis almost as if she thinks that she is better than everyone.
Blanch cannot believe the way her sister lives in New Orleans. She expects Stella to be living with the upper class, not in town with the commoners. As they are sisters, they both have come accustomed to a certain way of living which neither of them can support any longer. Although neither can live among the higher class any longer, Blanche choses to believe that this is not so.
This might be a sad state of affairs, but one thing that they can both can agree on is that Stanly is not the the type of man that they were raised to marry. Stanley is a blue-collard hard working man, not trained in the ways of aristocracy as one might imagine.
Something Stanley and Blanche have in common is their love for Stella. They both want the best for her which erupt in their emotions as well. They also strive for Stella to notice them with obscene gestures of love. Stanley and Blanch both want to be the center of attention in many ways. This makes it extremely hard to balance their personalities in a given scene.
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