Blanche

Stanley and Blanche push the tension with each other to expose secrets and search for their love to satisfy their decisions about their relationships. When Blanche sees Stanley and Stella’s relationship, she looks to Stanley’s friends to find a connection and satisfy her search for love. She notices Mitch and looks for ways to be with him. “Is he married?” (Williams 1133) Blanche asks, because she wants to get to know him, hoping he would be a good fit for her relationship. Blanche uses sympathy…

His life wasn't the greatest. His idea for Blanche probably came from a mixture of how his sister was before and after the operation. "She also has a bad drinking problem, which she covers up poorly." (Biography on Blanche). This quote from Blanche's biography is telling about her bad drinking problem showing how immature and frail Blanche really is. This also helps the connection between Tennessee's sister showing how childish she was before…

(Biography.com). The main characters in that play are Blanche Dubois, her younger sister Stella, and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Dubois has unexpectedly come to live with her sister because she has lost her job. In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is characterized as a liar, mentally unstable and having troubled relationships with men. Blanche Dubois lies about her life to escape reality. She tries to keep…

disconnected world drives people to steadily move forward in their lives. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois desperately yearns for this connection but fails to find it. Her isolation will become her ultimate defeat in the aggressive, merciless world she simply is not fit for. In Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois’s failed search for connection illustrates the crucial balance between illusion and reality necessary to survive in a…

later learn that she was not always like this. Blanche was once a sweet gentle girl who fell in “love. All at once and much, much too completely” with a man whom she believed she would live with forever; but later finds her husband has cheated on her with “an older man who had been his friend for years.” Learning that her man of complete admiration had cheated on her was enough, but that it had also been an act so shameful in their time, was too much. Blanche cannot bear it, and makes a childish…

uses the game of poker as the framework for his most well-known play, A Streetcar Named Desire (SNL). The whole play represents a metaphorical poker game, with Blanche and Stanley as the players, and Stella as the dealer. Stella, like all poker dealers, attempts to stay neutral; however, in this game, Stella is also the prize Stanley and Blanche are competing for. While the cards dealt at an actual poker game are playing cards, the cards that Stella deal are love, desire, and deceit. Throughout…

beneath her vanity. Blanche associates bright light with both love and awakening: she describes falling in love as “suddenly turn[ing] a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow” (Williams 67). However, it also reveals the harshness of reality and she dims the lighting (with the paper lantern) to maintain an illusion of “magic” and present “what ought to be truth” (Williams 84). Blanche associates bright light with a time when her life truly was magical; Blanche was…

protagonist of the story, Blanche Dubois is on the surface the epitome of a southern lady. Due to the loss of the ancestral home, Belle Reve in Laurel she is reduced to seeking shelter with her sister Stella and husband Stanley who live in an impoverished section of New Orleans. Blanche superficially may represent a delicate well-bred southern lady, but behind this illusion is a woman reduced to using her looks and sex to gain favors and protection for the last couple of years. For Blanche the…

focus on the female sexuality aspect, specifically focusing on how societies expectations are influencing sexuality during the filming and how the characters use sexuality as a tool to control. Sexuality is represented through many forms, Stanley, Blanche and also Stella. Sexuality is represented through Stanley, who is symbolic of the male population, who is allowed to be openly sexual and dominant but Stanley uses this as a control “Stanley uses his sexuality and aggression to assert his…

Streetcar Named Desire is a play about Blanche Dubois, moving in with her poorer sister after losing the family home to debt. Blanche, being of the upper class, is not used to the lower class lifestyle and ends up having a mental breaking after hurting…