In "A Streetcar Named Desire," Tennessee Williams first portrays Blanche as a delicate 'southern belle' from a high classed society that has taken a leave of absence because of her "nerves." However, as you read further into the play, you begin to see a different dimension to Blanche. She's not just a person who is freeloading off of her sister and acting like she's better than everyone. She has had a difficult past as well.
Blanche lost her first love while a teenager. He shot himself in the head because she said that he disgusted her while polka music was playing. When she was with Mitch after her birthday 'party,' he told her he didn't want to marry her and the same polka music played.
Blanche went through everyone in her family dying and having to go through with all the funerals and not being able to pay for them, resulting in the loss of their home "Belle Reve." Blanche has just been trying to find a place in her life where she doesn't have to worry about money, or losing anyone she loves. When she witnesses Stanley abusing her sister, she is worried that he will take her away, just as everyone else she's loved has been taken away. Right now, Blanche is confused about who she is, so she puts on an act to hide her emotions and troubles.
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In other words she is a promiscuous because she experienced some troubling things in her past. Her husband was gay and he kills himself and she blames herself for his death. SO she wants to be with a lot of young men to make herself feel young and to get over her dead husband. She looses her riches and now can not handle being poor. Instead of adapting to a poor environment, she tries to maintain her stuck up attitude. She wants to seem young, so she can marry someone to support her. She is not able to support herself because she is afraid to be alone.
ReplyDeleteShe falls victim to her past mistakes in her life. Ultimately, she can not run from what has already happened and it seems that her past will always be a part of her future.
ReplyDeleteShe is not given an option for another chance even after leaving her home town to go live with her sister. There, is where she actually has to relive all of her past mistakes and endure many other troubling events.