Williams uses dialogue early on in the play to show theme of lying in a streetcar named desire. Blanche starts off lying immediately as she arrives to Stella’s house about the reason why she decided to come to New Orleans and visit. Blanche tells Stella “Mr. Graves is the high school superintendent-he suggested I take a leave of absence. I couldn’t put all of those details into the wire… (Williams14).In reality, her high school superintendent, Mr. Graves fired her from her job for having an affair with a student which she kept referring in the play as “THE BOY”. Blanche started off being dishonest with her sister which validates the theme of the story. Even though we do not know why Blanche started off telling a lie to her sister while reading
