This play by Tennessee Williams portrays a woman who is very distraught about her past years and copes with it by her sexuality. She puts her imagination ahead of her real life, eventually finding it very hard to disguise what is real. Blanche, Stella's older sister, A high school English teacher from Laurel, Mississippi arrived in New Orleans a city of despair with an ultimately crumbling figure. Blanche once was married to and passionately in love with a tortured young man. Once Blanche Found out of her love’s homosexuality he soon killed himself, and she has suffered from guilt and regret ever since. Blanche watched many of her relatives and ancestors die and as the last one did, she as well watched the foreclosure on the family estate,
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She is portrayed as a knowledgable and sensitive woman who values literature and one’s imagination, as well she is emotionally traumatized and repressed. This is why she relies on her imagination to hide from the pain of her past. Throughout the play, it is hard for Blanche to tell the difference from her real self and the one that she pretends to be. She eventually finds it quite hard for her to distinguish the difference of the two. It is not hard to find the key to Blanche's sadness because it is mostly in the roots of her early marriage. Her inability to help her young husband tortured her. She is easily lost to the kindness of strangers because her sense of feminine confidence was lost due to her husband’s homosexuality, she uses her sexual charm to try to attract men over and over. Yet, what she seeks most of all is the companionship and fulfillment of love that she lots so many years ago. She has tried to find this so many times but, she is unsuccessful because she refuses to face reality within herself. She is never able to confront her desires so, therefore can never find them. She wishes for a man of culture but subconsciously picks the basic male character due to her disastrous marriage with the type of man she
She is portrayed as a knowledgable and sensitive woman who values literature and one’s imagination, as well she is emotionally traumatized and repressed. This is why she relies on her imagination to hide from the pain of her past. Throughout the play, it is hard for Blanche to tell the difference from her real self and the one that she pretends to be. She eventually finds it quite hard for her to distinguish the difference of the two. It is not hard to find the key to Blanche's sadness because it is mostly in the roots of her early marriage. Her inability to help her young husband tortured her. She is easily lost to the kindness of strangers because her sense of feminine confidence was lost due to her husband’s homosexuality, she uses her sexual charm to try to attract men over and over. Yet, what she seeks most of all is the companionship and fulfillment of love that she lots so many years ago. She has tried to find this so many times but, she is unsuccessful because she refuses to face reality within herself. She is never able to confront her desires so, therefore can never find them. She wishes for a man of culture but subconsciously picks the basic male character due to her disastrous marriage with the type of man she