The main character, Blanche from the play A Streetcar Named Desire witnesses many tragedies. These incidents are forever etched in her memory. She comes to stay with her sister Stella thinking she is running away from her past but instead her past catches up with her and from depression gradually turns insane. Blanche's pathetic disintegration begins with the loss of her loved ones, the abandonment of Mitch and getting raped by Stanley.
The unfortunate incidents of death that Blanche witness begin with the death of her late husband Allan. She was married with Allan at the age of sixteen where she made the "discovery- love" (Williams 1.94). She then goes on to explain to Mitch that she found her husband in bed with another a man who had been his friend for years. She was shocked but did not say anything. Later that day they went to a casino, she was drunk and told him how disgusted she was by his behavior. Hearing this by her caused him to feel ashamed and unwanted. So he went outside and committed suicide. Following this incident Blanche feels guilty for telling him that she saw him with his friend in bed because she feels responsible for his death. A couple years later as Blanche was recovering the guilt and death o
It then just goes down hill for Ms. Blanche Dubois as she now found love once again and because of the lack of truth in the relationship on her part she is torn away from her new special someone. We find this out when Mitch visits Blanche to tell her that there relationship cannot continue. He has come to tell her that he wants to find out the truth about her. Mitch wants to know if the accusations are true. And if they are he wants to end their relationship. However it takes him sometime as he has to muster up the courage to tell her what is on his mind. He finds it hard at first but when she asks him what was on his mind. He gets the courage and asks her to let him see her face in the light, so that all of her masquerades or curtains of deceit could be removed to reveal the true woman, behind the mask. When the light falls on Blanche' face, her fantasy dies. She can no longer hide her face from Mitch. When Mitch tells her that " 'she is not clean enough to bring in the house'"(Williams 9.121), to bring with his mother. This statement destroys Blanche as it adds to her inferiority complex. The man she loves sees her as being filthy and unfit to be shown to his mother. This kills what little was remaining of the fragile Blanche Dubois. Blanche descends further into madness as she tells Mitch that if he does leave she will scream fire. Upon hearing that her relationship with Mitch cannot continue she goes more in the road of insanity. She cannot handle the pain and suffering once again. Her world is being torn apart again. She is being destroyed and there is nothing that she can do.
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