Blanche Dubois In A Streetcar Named Desire

Blanche tries to conceal the secrets of her past from her new found life in New Orleans; however it is only a matter of time before the truth comes out. Stanley is the one to reveal her true reason for coming to New Orleans: she was essentially kicked out of her town because there were only so many men. Her numerous sexual relations recounted by Stanley depict Blanche as a gold digger and the epitome of the party. Stanley crashes all of Blanche’s hopes to recreate a new life for Blanche. He forces Mitch, her almost lover, to leave Blanche and stoop her down to even more disparity in her

She lies to others to hide her past. Blanche’s series of lies did not bring her comfort instead leading her to tragedy. “Mr. Graves is suggested I take a leave of absence”(14) and “ I guess you are hoping I’ll say I’ll put up at a hotel, but I am not going to put up at hotel I want to be near you” (17) and the other lie is Bell Reve was his headquarters! “Honey that is how it slipped through my finger” (22). Blanche is telling these lies to her sister hoping Stall will believe her and accept her as she is now. Blanche is constantly lying to Mitch, who is Stanley’s friend and the only hope for life. “I called her little in spite of the fact she’s somewhat older than I” (60) and “Married? No. No I am old maid schoolteacher” (60). Blanche’s fake

Blanche Dubois has a mysterious past that she tries to hide with her stylish and demure front. She tries her best to cope with reality, whether that includes slinging back one too many shots of whiskey or getting involved with one too many men. However, Blanche does eventually come to terms with her past, potentially changing the reader’s view on her. While speaking to her potential love interest, Mitch, about the night of her husband’s death, Blanche states “It was because-on the dance floor-unable to stop myself-I’d suddenly said-’I saw! I know!

However, it is not just Blanche who is pragmatic at points. Mitch seeks for stability in his life too, since he admits how he worries for his mother, and how his mother worries about him being lonely when she dies, and not settling down – Blanche is his chance to form a family.

Throughout Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche Dubois exemplified several tragic flaws. She suffered from her haunting past; her inability to overcome; her desire to be someone else; and from the cruel, animalistic treatment she received from Stanley. Sadly, her sister Stella also played a role in her downfall. All of these factors ultimately led to Blanche’s tragic breakdown in the end.

due to her past blanche’s actions are unusual and to many they are considered inappropriate. Blanche lives through some very dark and intense incidents before the play takes place, she witnesses the death of her entire family, she loses her family home, and to add to the misery she believes she is the reason her husband killed himself. In an act to move on she retreats into illusion acting as if these incidents never happened. Blanche decides to lie to everyone, from her sister to the man she potentially wanted to marry, she does not give them the truth. She wants to marry mitch but does not tell him about her past, mitch had all right to know, yet she led him on, actions like these in an environment of connection is inappropriate beyond a doubt. Because of her lies and illusions Blanche ends up losing everything, she loses her only chance at a future with Mitch and her freedom when she is sent to the mental institution. Blanches motivation by the past caused her life around her dissolve.

What Blanche means when she says “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” that due to her past issues and conflicts that Blanche experienced she desires that attention and compliments from strangers and eventually counted on the kindness to make her feel more confident and fulfill her emptiness along with all the insecurities she had.

Before one can understand Blanche's character, one must understand the reason why she moved to New Orleans and joined her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley. By analyzing the symbolism in the first scene, one

When Blanche says that she could become lost, this suggests that she is trying to convince Mitch that she is both a good girl and someone who loves him. When Blanche was sixteen, she met and married Alan. When Blanche is said that she could become ‘lost’, this suggests her conscious decision to not fall in love with Mitch. The ‘lost’ feeling that Blanche is afraid to achieve stems from her previous relationship with Allan. When she was sixteen Blanche fell in love with a the boy named Allan and the two eventually married.

Blanche rejects Mitch because she was once mean and cold-hearted to her ex-husband. She said that cruelty is unforgivable. Blanche views herself as being unforgivable for her actions to her ex-husband.

She even tells Mitch that she doesn’t tell the truth, she tells what ought to be truth. So Blanche is aware that she is lying and continues to do it, which end the end causes grief for her.

Like many people in the world, the characters in Tennessee William’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire, are troubled by anxiety and insecurities. Life in New Orleans during the 1940s was characterized by the incredible variety of music, lively and bright atmosphere, and diverse population, while in the midst of the ongoing World War II. Culture was rich and fruitful because the city developed into a “melting pot” of people from all over the world. Due to the wide-range in population, the people of New Orleans adopted an identity like no other. Instead of their identity being entirely pieced together, almost like a puzzle, the people took on one that was shared by the entire community. However, with this being said, people had the ability to use this to their advantage and mask their true selves. This idea translates well into the play A Streetcar Named Desire, and is exhibited through the character Blanche. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams uses the theme of vanity to reveal the importance of appearance, and the insecurities of Blanche and how they influence her actions.

Blanche needs Mitch as a stabilizing force in her life; if her relationship with him fails, she knows she faces a world that offers few prospects for a financially challenged, unmarried woman approaching middle age. She tacitly admits to Mitch that she needs him when she accepts his embrace, but her fears of acknowledging her past and current situation overpower her and prevent her from telling the full truth. She hides her past not only from Mitch, but also from herself because to acknowledge it is to also admit the unhealthy choices she has made. When Stanley tells Mitch about Blanche’s blemished past Mitch recognizes that Blanche’s deceptions have relied on a symbolic and literal darkness which obscures reality. When Mitch asks Blanche to be honest about herself she says, “I don’t want realism. I want Magic! I don’t tell truth, I tell what ought to be the truth” (145). In these lines Blanche clearly expresses her desire not to deal with reality; this inability to face her circumstances signifies that Blanche is not recovering from her mental stress, but rather descending further into it. Blanche becomes desperate and delusional and her descent into mental

While drinking heavily after Mitch’s refusal to marry her, her delusional madness worsens. With very little self esteem left Blanche begins to pretend that there are people

I would like to analyze a tragic heroine Blanche DuBois appearing in a play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) written by Tennessee Williams. My intention is to concentrate on the most significant features of her nature and behaviour and also on various external aspects influencing her life and resulting in her nervous breakdown. I would like to discuss many themes related to this character, such as loss, desire and longing for happiness, beauty and youth, pretension, lies and imagination, dependence on men and alcoholism.