In Tennesse Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire" the readers are
introduced to a character named Blanche DuBois. In the plot, Blanche is
Stella's younger sister who has come to visit Stella and her husband
Stanley in New Orleans. After their first meeting Stanley develops a
strong dislike for Blanche and everything associated with her. Among the
things Stanley dislikes about Blanche are her "spoiled-girl" manners and
her indirect and quizzical way of conversing. Stanley also believes that
Blanche has conned him and his wife out of the family mansion. In his
opinion, she is a good-for-nothing "leech" that has attached itself to
his household, and is just living off him. Blanche's lifelong habit of
avoiding unpleasant realities leads to her breakdown as seen in her
irrational response to death, her dependency, and her inability to
defend herself from Stanley's attacks.
Blanche's situation with her husband is the key to her later behavior.
She married......
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