Blanche Dubois Struggles

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play about a fragile woman that comes and visits her sister and her new husband. She ran out of her own town because of her partners.The husband is not accepting of his wife’s sister and hassles her as much as he can.

Blanche DuBois is Stella’s older sister, who was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi, until she was forced to leave her post. Blanche is a talkative and fragile woman around the age of thirty. After losing her childhood home, Blanche arrives in New Orleans at the Kowalski apartment and eventually reveals that she is completely lacking the necessities to live. Though she has strong sexual urges and has had many lovers, she puts on the front of a woman who is completely untouched.

Stella possesses the same upper class childhood as Blanche, but she jumped the sinking ship in her late teens and left Mississippi for New Orleans. There Stella married lower-class Stanley. After Blanche’s arrival, Stella is torn between her sister and her husband. Eventually, she stands by Stanley, perhaps in part because she gives birth to his child near the play’s end. While she loves and pities Blanche, she cannot bring herself to believe Blanche’s accusations that Stanley dislikes Blanche, and she eventually dismisses Blanche’s claim that Stanley raped her. Stella’s denial of reality at the play’s end shows that she has more in common with her sister than she

These shadows and cries were all apart of her imagination and symbolized Blanche decline into to her own world instead of staying in reality. The Varsouviana polka that was playing the last time Blanche saw her husband, Allen, before he killed himself. The song only ends when she hears a gunshot. The polka symbolizes Blanche’s loss of innocence. The suicide of the young man she had loved dearly began her decline into madness. In scene seven, Blanche was singing a song called, “It’s Only a Paper Moon.” The song is all about love turning the real world into a “phony” fantasy. As she is singing it in the tub, Stanley is telling Stella about her past. This counteracts Blanche’s fantasy and