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‘Right from the start of the play, Williams draws the audience in by his presentation of tension and potential conflict between the sisters.’ Do you agree?
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'Right from the start of the play, Williams draws the audience in by his presentation of tension and potential conflict between the sisters.' Do you agree? Use as a starting point the opening of the play up to the stage directions 'They stare at each other across the yellow-checked linoleum of the table.' In the opening scene Williams presents the potential for conflict and tension between characters; most evidently between Stella and Blanche. However he also presents tension within Blanche and the potential of conflict within herself. Williams presents Blanche as a very unstable, overwrought and on edge character. She sits in the chair and she's stiff, she 'presses her legs close together', she's uncomfortable and vulnerable to what is around her. William shows us the moth without its protective disguise 'I've got to keep hold of myself!'. The audience sees a fragile paper doll, an alcoholic. Just before Blanche is about to tell...
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