In the play, Blanche seems to be the most desperate character. In the beginning, she is described as beautiful, proper, and aging southern belle that is moving to New Orleans. After a personal and financial downfall, she is seeking to start a new and better life with her younger sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley. Her character seems emotionally lost throughout the whole play. She is unable to escape her past and is constantly fighting with herself on what is reality and the truth. Despite her previous indiscretions, Blanche pretends to be a woman who has never known indignity. Her trying to conceal her past eventually causes her additional mental complications and eventually lead her to have a nervous breakdown.
After moving in with Stella and her husband, Blanche tries explaining to Stella that all the money is gone and how it was lost. Almost immediately, Stanley is suspicions of her and her motives. He believes that she cheated Stella out of her inheritance and that she is hiding something. Blanche begins to despise Stanley after he strikes Stella in a drunken rage and she tries talking Stella into leaving him for someone better. “A man like that is someone to go …show more content…
He discovers the truth about the real reasons she left Laurel. He tells Stella about Blanche’s sexual promiscuity and about her having an affair with a seventeen year old student. He eventually tells Mitch, Blanche’s boyfriend and the man she intends to marry, that she has been lying about being a prim and proper woman. This causes Mitch to show up at the apartment drunk and calls off the marriage with Blanche, sending her into a deeper state of mental torment. She becomes delusional and begins to see shadows, images of her past, and hears music. She felt that Mitch was her Southern gentleman savior and her last chance of happiness, even though he was far from her ideal man. All her dreams of a future with him were
After moving in with Stella and her husband, Blanche tries explaining to Stella that all the money is gone and how it was lost. Almost immediately, Stanley is suspicions of her and her motives. He believes that she cheated Stella out of her inheritance and that she is hiding something. Blanche begins to despise Stanley after he strikes Stella in a drunken rage and she tries talking Stella into leaving him for someone better. “A man like that is someone to go …show more content…
He discovers the truth about the real reasons she left Laurel. He tells Stella about Blanche’s sexual promiscuity and about her having an affair with a seventeen year old student. He eventually tells Mitch, Blanche’s boyfriend and the man she intends to marry, that she has been lying about being a prim and proper woman. This causes Mitch to show up at the apartment drunk and calls off the marriage with Blanche, sending her into a deeper state of mental torment. She becomes delusional and begins to see shadows, images of her past, and hears music. She felt that Mitch was her Southern gentleman savior and her last chance of happiness, even though he was far from her ideal man. All her dreams of a future with him were