Overview
Character Name
Strange Man
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Ensemble
Dramatic Function
Authority Figure, Mentor/Guide
Relationships
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
New Orleans, 1940s
Analysis
The kind, quiet doctor who uses his gentleness to convince Blanche to accompany him to the sanitarium at the play’s end. She latches onto him, stating, “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
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