By Tennessee Williams
What made Blanche go to the lunatic asylum? It was not Stanley, not Mitch, not Stella of course. It was her desire drove her to her destination.
Blanche was from upper-class society. She was hypocritical, selfish, callous, prideful, shameless, artificial, demanding, educated and smart. All her good feeling abut herself built in her imagination and useless characters. That is why she had to live in the shadow and she could not live under the sun.
She paid much more attention to her appearance.
She did not care about her pregnant sister (Stella). She fooled Stella for her kindness and innocence. She was not considerate.
She looked down on working class, she was rude to Eunice even Eunice was very helpful and nice to her.
She was immoral even tried to seduce her sister-in-law (Stanley) at their first meeting.
She was a genius lair. Living with Stella was her last choice but she told Eunice that she would stay with them for helping out.
She was smart, she made Stella run errand so that she could talk with Stanley.
She disliked working class and tried very hard to persuade Stella to leave Stanley, on the other hand she tried very hard to marry Mitch because of living.
Stanley, a guy from working class was her enemy. Their attitudes and their background were totally incompatible.
He was smarter than she was. He could tell if she was fooling around her. He was straightforward which is why she was afraid of him, he might tell the truth anytime. He was humors and said “liquor goes fast in hot weather” when he found the wine was drunk by Blanche but Blanche denied. He tried to be polite for the beginning, later on when he found that Blanche was his enemy he could do anything to destroy her. He was primitive. Both sides want to have Stella and Mitch at their sides, both talked Stella and Mitch bad words about opponent. Mitch was smart. Stanley won the fight between them.
Blanche told Mitch (lie):
“I do not want realism, I want magic, I mispresident things to them. I do not tell truth, I tell what ought to be true.”
“… a cultivated woman, a woman of intelligence and breeding, can enrich a man’s life—immeasurably!…”
Stanley told Blanche (truth):
“I’ve been on to you from the start! Not once did you pull any wool over this boy’s eyes! You come in here and sprinkle the place with powder and spray perfume and cover the light-bulb with a paper lantern, and behold the place has turned into Egypt and you are the Queen of the Nile! Sitting on your throne and swilling down my liquor!…”
