Blanche represents a deep-seated attachment to the past. She has lived her whole life in Laurel, a small southern town; her family has aristocratic roots and they taught Blanche about the upper class life. Unfortunately, she cannot cope with life outside Laurel. Her life is a lesson in how a single mishap in life can have a large effect on the future; her refusal to come out of the time warp and cope with the real world, makes her idealistic. At the age of sixteen, she became obsessed with, and eloped with a sensitive boy. She believes that life with Allan would be pure happiness. She faces her worst nightmare when she discovers he is a bi-sexual degenerate. She is disgusted and tells him how she feels and this leads for him to commit suicide. Blanche cannot get over this. She holds herself responsible for his dea

In trying to escape the misery of her life in Laurel, Blanche turns to drinking and meaningless sex. She takes the alcohol to stop the polka music, symbolic of Allan's death, from running on in her head and to avoid the reality of her life. She submits her body to various strangers in an attempt to lose herself. She seduces young boys, trying to find a remembrance of Allan. She never finds peace in herself, and her horrific reputation ends her teaching career.

Both Stanley and Mitch fail to realize that while Blanche can easily give herself physically to a stranger, its hard for her to give herself to someone she truly cares about. In her sexual encounters with strangers, she was the giver, because it was her choice. When Stanley takes her forcefully, the brutality of the act breaks her fragile nature; she is totally destroyed. When Blanche tells Stella about the rape, one of the few times she tells the truth in the entire story, her sister does not buy Blanche's story; in the most significant irony in the play, Stella uses the only truth stated by her sister and uses it against her and decides Blanche has become insane. The only place for her now is the state institution, where Stella conveniently sends her to save her own marriage.

th. His death is soon followed by long visits at the bedside of her dying relatives.

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