Blanche is the main protagonist of A Streetcar Named Desire. She has a quite complex character which consists of stark contraries. She is dreamy and refined, educated and naive, childish and calculating, self-confident and shy, or angelic pure and immoral at the same time (Poppe 60). She grows up in a sheltered atmosphere with her sister, Stella, at the plantation Belle Reve. The name "Belle Reve" means "beautiful dream" in French and represented a wealthy and beautiful manor at that time.
With the loss of the manor, Blanche escapes real life by fleeing into her illusions which are fed by longings, hopes, and desires. She must experience that her illusions are gradually destroyed by reality. Although the southern states are experiencing an …show more content…
First of all, Mitch becomes the victim of Stanley’s investigations about Blanche because Stanley tells him everything about her sordid past. Of course, Mitch was not able to believe Stanley at first and, therefore, he placed phone calls to Laurel in which he was verified about Blanche’s dark past (Adler 70). Since Blanche always tried to camouflage her past and her real self, the news was even more shocking for Mitch, and he is disturbed because she wanted to make him wait for sexual interactions after marriage, even though she has been “working” as a prostitute. Mitch fails Blanche equally as she failed her young husband, Allan because both Mitch and Blanche were not able to accept the significant other (Adler 67). On the one hand, Blanche couldn´t accept the fact that Allan was homosexual and her disgust led to his suicide. On the other hand, Mitch fails to accept Blanche and her past and he judges her for being a prostitute rather than appreciating her will to “become good again” and her, helping him to escape from his personal misery. In conclusion, one can say that Mitch becomes, with the help of Stanley, unintentionally responsible for Blanche’s loss of dignity. Mitch breaks her spirit and Stanley her body, which means the death sentence for a woman like Blanche. And with Mitch turning his back to Blanche as well, her only hope and illusion of love, desire, and a happy future are destroyed because Mitch was only able to see her the way the others saw her and could not force himself to accept
With the loss of the manor, Blanche escapes real life by fleeing into her illusions which are fed by longings, hopes, and desires. She must experience that her illusions are gradually destroyed by reality. Although the southern states are experiencing an …show more content…
First of all, Mitch becomes the victim of Stanley’s investigations about Blanche because Stanley tells him everything about her sordid past. Of course, Mitch was not able to believe Stanley at first and, therefore, he placed phone calls to Laurel in which he was verified about Blanche’s dark past (Adler 70). Since Blanche always tried to camouflage her past and her real self, the news was even more shocking for Mitch, and he is disturbed because she wanted to make him wait for sexual interactions after marriage, even though she has been “working” as a prostitute. Mitch fails Blanche equally as she failed her young husband, Allan because both Mitch and Blanche were not able to accept the significant other (Adler 67). On the one hand, Blanche couldn´t accept the fact that Allan was homosexual and her disgust led to his suicide. On the other hand, Mitch fails to accept Blanche and her past and he judges her for being a prostitute rather than appreciating her will to “become good again” and her, helping him to escape from his personal misery. In conclusion, one can say that Mitch becomes, with the help of Stanley, unintentionally responsible for Blanche’s loss of dignity. Mitch breaks her spirit and Stanley her body, which means the death sentence for a woman like Blanche. And with Mitch turning his back to Blanche as well, her only hope and illusion of love, desire, and a happy future are destroyed because Mitch was only able to see her the way the others saw her and could not force himself to accept