In five pages the character of Blanche in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is examined in terms of her sanity and whether she should be considered insane. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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away to a mental institution because it is believed that she is insane. However, when we examine the story it is perhaps difficult to ascertain if she is truly insane,
or merely suffering from a nervous breakdown. In the following paper we examine Blanches character, arguing that she was likely a very fragile woman on the verge of a nervous
breakdown, and the events which transpired truly sent her over the edge, an edge she would likely never recover from. Blanche DuBois Blanche DuBois is a woman trapped
and controlled by her past. She is a woman of high airs and high ideals. Yet, she is also a woman who is essentially on the verge of losing her
mind as she tries to run from reality. The reality that lays before her is far too much to bear, for Blanche is aging, has nothing to show for her
life, and has nowhere to go. Her future holds nothing. She is incredibly stressed out and incredibly vulnerable to what life offers her. When we first see Blanche we
believe that she is a used up woman. She puts on powerful airs that she is incredibly classy, from the South, and is a true lady. She is coming to
the city to stay with her sister, and her sisters husband. When she meets her sister, in a bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: "Oh
no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (Williams NA). In this she pretends she is a woman of class and refinement. And, she further argues
this case when she understands where her sister lives, in perhaps the worst part of the city: "Only Poe. Only Mr. Edgar Allan Poe could do justice to it. What