ws with liquor, enticing her moods to change as quickly as she can hide her evidence. Before the "amateur artiste" meets her younger and clearly diverse sister, she relies on liquor to calm her nerves and create a sedative for her unjust emotions.
             On meeting Stella, depicted as the personification of survival, there is clearly a contrast between Blanche's escapism and acts of frantic behaviour with the quiet, profound and intense realisation of Stella. Already carrying a new life ultimately shows that someone's demise is apparent. It also shows the ability to mould and shape some-one's future, but shows the inevitable consequence that the past will materialize into a weakened state of mind and the ruin of a body, shown as a "Southern Belle" that has tainted the perception of the audience and generates a feeling of disillusionment, mistrust and an inaugural tense separation between the audience and Blanche.
             Having manipulated the truth to achieve respect from Stella and avoid the harshness of reality about her drinking problems, Blanche 'reluctantly' accepts an alcoholic beverage from her sister and promoting that she "hasn't turned into a drunkard." A dramatic tension is illuminated, as this is one of the many lies that Blanche intends. However, whilst this feeling of doubt is merely an underlying tension in the audience who know that "one's not only her limit", but the audience humours this lie because at this point in time earnestness and authenticity is not apparent.
             Blanche uses criticism and reprimand to lead Stella into thinking that she is the fundamental basis to which opened the access of death, degeneration and fatalities at Belle Reve. The white building with the columns built of prospects, power, richness, liberty and hierarchy crumbled when the loss of an acute figure created a hole in which death could thrive, inflicting a dire incarnat...