As a young girl Blanche marries a boy, with whom she claims to had love just like a “blinding light”. She describes him as a tender and gentle man that eventually, turned out to be homosexual and Blanche admits that she said to him that he disgusts her, for which he committed a suicide. Dedicated to the idea of having a man beside her, who could make her happy, she throws herself into many unsuccessful liaisons. Blanche’s scared of her fading beauty and realizes that, in order to have better chances to attract men, she has to hide her true age: “- How many candles you putting in that cake? - I'll stop at twenty-five.” ; a woman that uses the night as an ally to trap men and find a love that she’s longing and craving for, hoping that a prospective husband [like Mitch] could help her to escape away from her miserable life: “…I think it was panic, just panic, that drove me from one to another, hunting for some protection-here and there…”
As a young girl Blanche marries a boy, with whom she claims to had love just like a “blinding light”. She describes him as a tender and gentle man that eventually, turned out to be homosexual and Blanche admits that she said to him that he disgusts her, for which he committed a suicide. Dedicated to the idea of having a man beside her, who could make her happy, she throws herself into many unsuccessful liaisons. Blanche’s scared of her fading beauty and realizes that, in order to have better chances to attract men, she has to hide her true age: “- How many candles you putting in that cake? - I'll stop at twenty-five.” ; a woman that uses the night as an ally to trap men and find a love that she’s longing and craving for, hoping that a prospective husband [like Mitch] could help her to escape away from her miserable life: “…I think it was panic, just panic, that drove me from one to another, hunting for some protection-here and there…”