Characters

Major Characters:

Blanche: was a high school English teacher; Stella's older sister

Stella: married to Stanley; Blanche's younger sister

Stanley: low-class man with Polish ancestry

Mitch: works at the same plant Stanley travels for; interested in Blanch

Eunice: upstairs neighbor and landlady to Stanley and Stella; also one of Stella's closest friends

Steve: lives upstairs with his wife Eunice; Stanley's poker buddy

Minor Characters:

Pablo: Hispanic poker buddy

A Negro Woman: only in scene 1 talking to Eunice and Blanche

A Doctor: at the end of the play, he takes her off to an asylum

A Nurse: helps the doctor take Blanche to the asylum

A Young Collector: a teenager collecting money for the newspaper

A Mexican Woman: sold flower for the dead