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Blanche continually tries to turn Stella away from Stanley, by belittling him every chance she has. She tries to prevent her sister from returning to her husband after Stella had been beaten by Stanley during the card game.
Blanche lies about her drinking, she lies about her age, she lies about losing her job, and she lies through omission about a past that seems tragic in the play but like punishment in the movie.
As a girl wanting love, Blanche DuBois would lie in order to make herself attractive to male suitors (Williams 40). The lies included creating a false historical life of Blanche DuBois.
The reader should be aware of Blanche's almost pathological need to lie. She lies to Mitch about her reason for visiting Stella and about her age. But as Blanche will later say, these are only little illusions that a woman must create. This is the third confrontation between Blanche and Stanley.
Williams establishes Blanche's role as Stanley's victim far earlier on in the play than his physical domination of her, and Stanley's menacing characterization implies that Blanche's flawed character does not give her singular potential to fall victim to him.
By having Blanche committed to a mental institution, thus choosing Stanley, Stella seems to be displaying her practical side, which prompted her to escape the bankrupt Belle Reve life years ago and reminds her she now has a dependent child to support.
I didn't lie in my heart." Blanche means that she has used some deception to trap Mitch, but a certain amount of illusion is a woman's charm, but as she said to Stanley in Scene 2: "when a thing is important, I tell the truth." And she did tell the truth to Mitch when she told him that she loved and needed him and that ...
At the beginning of the play, Blanche tells lies and knows that she's lying. For example, she tells her sister in Scene One that she's simply taking a “leave of absence” from her job as a schoolteacher. We suspect at this point that she's not telling the truth, and our suspicions are later confirmed.
Blanche deceives others using her chaste image, in order to hide her insecurities. She deceives herself by gaining a false sense of stability through her appearance and intimate encounters. Blanche deceives others and herself as a defense mechanism.
'” In Blanche's fragile world, Alan's death was immensely significant, the emotional repercussions are her post-traumatic stress disorder, encompassing both neurotic and psychotic qualities.
Stanley surmises that Blanche, having lost her reputation, her place of residence, and her job, had no choice but to wash up in New Orleans. He is certain that she has no intention of returning to Laurel.
Her family fortune and estate are gone, she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier, and she is a social pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behavior. She also has a bad drinking problem, which she covers up poorly.
Blanche explains that she is nervous because Mitch is coming for her at seven. She tells Stella that she has created an illusion with Mitch that she is all prim and proper. She has also lied about her age because she wants Mitch to want her.
Key interpretation. Stanley's refusal to kiss Stella in front of Blanche could show that he is inhibited in Blanche's presence, or that he resents his wife for allowing her to stay with them.
To escape from these brutalities and to escape from the lonely void created by her young husband's death, Blanche turned to alcohol and sexual promiscuity. The alcohol helped her to forget.
Scene Nine fails to tell us conclusively whether Blanche is responsible for her fate or whether she is a victim of circumstances beyond her control. Mitch claims that it is Blanche's lying, not her age, that bothers him.
That Blanche is not capable of overcoming Allan´s suicide is shown in the fact, that Blanche feels attracted to young boys. She has an affair with one of her students, which leads to the loss of her job, and later she kisses a young paper boy spontaneously on his mouth.
Stanley's intense hatred of Blanche is motivated in part by the aristocratic past Blanche represents. He also (rightly) sees her as untrustworthy and does not appreciate the way she attempts to fool him and his friends into thinking she is better than they are.
A Streetcar Named Desire ends with the aftermath of Stanley's climactic rape of Blanche. Stella, now a mother, has committed Blanche to a state-run mental institution, taking the rape accusation as evidence her sister has gone insane.
Blanche is extremely conscious of her physical appearance throughout the play. She is concerned that she is growing old, and she lies about her age and works tirelessly to appear younger than she is.
Blanche explains to Mitch that she fibs because she refuses to accept the hand fate has dealt her. Lying to herself and to others allows her to make life appear as it should be rather than as it is.
The end of the play leaves the outcome of this power-struggle questionable, with Stella holding her 'sobbingly… crying now that her sister is gone'. She appears to finally show remorse for her act of betrayal against Blanche, and so the fact that she is crying places her figuratively back in Blanche's possession.
Progress booster: Stella's devotion to Stanley
It is obvious, even without her passionate declaration in Scene Four, that she is deeply in love with her husband, and this love is the cornerstone of her existence.
He jumps at her, grabs her arm when she swings at him, and forces her to drop the bottle. “We've had this date from the beginning,” he says, and she sinks to her knees. He picks her up and carries her to the bed. The pulsing music indicates that Stanley rapes Blanche.