Analysis on Blanche DuBois From “A Streetcar Named Desire”

In Tennesse Williams play, A Streetcar Named swear the readers are introduced to a character named Blanche DuBois. In the plot, Blanche is Stellas younger babe who has come to punish Stella and her husband Stanley in New Orleans. aft(prenominal) their first meeting Stanley develops a substantive dis canardized for Blanche and everything associated with her. Among the things Stanley dislikes rough Blanche are her spoiled-girl politeness and her indirect and quizzical way of conversing. Stanley also believes that Blanche has conned him and his wife out of the family valet de chambresion.In his opinion, she is a good-for-nothing leech that has attached itself to his erecthold, and is unspoiled living off him. Blanches spiritednesslong garb of avoiding unpleasant realities leads to her breakdown as seen in her irrational response to final stage, her dependency, and her inability to argue herself from Stanleys attacks. Blanches situation with her husband is the report to her later behavior. She married rather premature at the age of sixteen to whom a boy she believed was a perfect gentle adult male. He was sensitive, understanding, and civilized much like herself glide path from an aristocratic background.She was truly in declare it away with eitheren whom she considered perfect in every way. unfortunately for her he was a homosexual. As she caught him unrivalled veritable(a)ing in their house with an cured man, she say nothing, permitting her disbelief to build up inside her. Some meter later that evening, speckle the two of them were dancing, she told him what she had seen and how he disgusted her. Immediately, he ran off the dance floor and piquance himself, with the gunshot forever staying in Blanches perspicacity. After that day, Blanche believed that she was really at error for his suicide.She became promiscuous, seeking a substitute work force (especially young boys), for her dead husband, thinking that she move overed him sexu ally. gradually her reputation as a work built up and everyone in her national town knew roughly her. Even for troops somebodynel at the near-by army base, Blanches house became out-of-bounds. Promiscuity though wasnt the only line she had. Many of the aged family members died and the funeral costs had to be c everywhithered by Blanches modest salary. The conclusions were long, pick apart and horrible on someone like Blanche.She was force to mortgage the mansion, and soon the depository financial institution repossessed it. At school, where Blanche taught English, she was dismissed because of an incident she had with a seventeen-year-old student that reminded her of her late husband. Even the oversight of the hotel Blanche stayed in during her final days in Laurel, asked her to leave because of the all the different work force that had been seeing there. All of this, cumulatively, weakened Blanche, morose her into an inebriantic, and lowered her psychical stability bit -by-bit.Her husbands death extend tos her greatly and determines her behavior from then on. Having missed Allan, who meant so much to her, she is blinded by the light and from then on neer lights anything stronger than a dim candle. This behavior is observable when she first comes to Stellas and puts a make-up lantern over the light medulla. Towards the end, when the doctor comes for Blanche and she says she forgot something, Stanley hands her her paper lantern. Even Mitch notices that she cannot stand the pure light, and accordingly refuses to go out with him during the daytime or to well lit places.Blanche herself says I cant stand a defenceless light bulb any more than . A scorn for bright light isnt the only affect on Blanche after Allans death she needfully to fill her empty heart, and so she turns to a lifestyle of one-night-stands with strangers. She tries to comfort herself from not organism able to satisfy Allan, and so Blanche makes an feat to satisfy strangers , thinking that they need her and that she cant fail them like she failed Allan. At the same time she turns to alcohol to avoid the brutality of death.The alcohol seems to ease her through the memories of the night of Allans death. overtime the memory comes back to her, the musical demarcation from the incident doesnt end in her mind until she has something alcoholic to drink. All of these irrational responses to death seem to signify how Blanches mind is unstable, and in time she tries to still be the educated, well-mannered, and attractive person that Mitch first sees her as. She tries to not let the horridness come out on top out of her image, destinying in an illusive and charming world instead.The life she desires though is not what she has and ends up with. Blanche is very certified approaching to Stella from Belle Reve with less than a dollar in change. Having been fired at school, she fall behinds to prostitution for finances, and even that does not suffice her. She has no prime(a) but to come and live with her sister Blanche is homeless, out of money, and cannot confirm a course due to her reputation in Laurel. already in New Orleans, once she meets Stanley, Blanche is impelled to get out of the house.She unavoidably get away from Stanley for she feels that a Kowalski and a DuBois cannot coexist in the same business firm. Her only resort to get out, though, is Mitch. She then realizes how much she needs Mitch. When asked by Stella, Whether Blanche wants Mitch, Blanche answers I want to loosening breathe quietly again Yes-I want Mitch if it happens I can leave here and not be anyones problem . This demonstrates how dependent she is on Mitch, and consequently Blanche tries to get him to marry her. There is though Stanley who stands between her and Mitch.Stanley is a realist and cannot stand the elusive dame Blanche, ultimately destroying her along with her illusions. Blanche cannot withstand his attacks. Before her, Stanleys household w as exactly how he wanted it to be. When Blanche came around and drunk his liquor, bathed in his bathtub, and posed a threat to his marriage, he acted like a primitive animal that he was, divergence by the principle of the survival of the fittest. Blanche already weakened by her torturous bypast did not fetch much of a chance against him.From their first meeting when he realized she lied to him about deglutition his liquor, he despised her. He attacked her fantasies about the rich boyfriend at a time when she was most emotionally unstable. He had fact over her word and forced her to prevail on _or_ upon herself that she did not part with Mitch in a friendly manner. Further, he went on asking her for the physical telegram to convince him that she did receive it. When Blanche was unable to provide it, he completely destruct her fantasies, telling her how she was the delusive Queen of the Nile sitting, on her throne and swill down his liquor.This wild rebuttal by Stanley she co uld not possibly take, just as she could not face a naked light bulb. Further when Stanley went on to enthrall her, he completely diminished her mental stability. It was not the actual rape that re breaks the causes for her following madness, but the fact that she was set on by a man who represented everything insufferable to her. She couldnt handle being so about capable to something that she has averted and diluted all of her life reality, realism, and rape by a man who knew her, destroyed her, and in the end make her something of his.She could not possibly effectively renounce against him in front of Stella. Blanches past and present actions & behavior, in the end, even in Stellas eye depicted her as an insane person. All of Blanches troubles with Stanley that in the end left her in a mental institution could have been avoided by her. Stanley and she would have gotten along collapse if she would have been frank with him during their first encounter. Blanche make a grave mi stake by trying to act like a lady, or trying to be what she judgment a lady ought to be.Stanley, being as primitive as he was, would have liked her better if she was honest with him about drinking his liquor. Blanche always felt she could bounce herself to strangers, and so she did try to flirt with Stanley at first. After all like she said to Stella Honey, would I be here if the man werent married? , Stanley did catch her eyes at first. But being brutally raped by him in the end destroyed her because he was not a starnger, he knew her, he made her face reality, and in a way he exposed her to the bright luminous light she could not stand all her life.