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This 10 page paper explores the way in which the four main characters (Blanche, Stanley, Stella and Mitch) use silence and self-deception to make their lives bearable. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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twice. The characters and the psychological reality they inhabit make it endlessly fascinating. This paper explores the way in which the four main characters (Blanche, Stanley, Stella and Mitch) use
silence and self-deception to make their lives bearable. Blanche Well start with Blanche DuBois because she is allegedly the "main" character of the play, though its possible to argue that
Blanche cannot truly function without the other three; in particular Stanley. Her attraction for a man she alleges is the antithesis of everything she finds attractive challenges our perception of
her as a refined, genteel lady and reveals the unstable woman underneath. Of all the characters, Blanche is the most self-deluded. She has constructed an entire fantasy life for
herself because she cannot bear to face reality. But Stanley, who is brutal and direct, immediately senses that she is hiding something, and sets out to discover her secret, destroying
her in the process. We find out Blanches history indirectly, and through a lot of circumstantial evidence. She says almost nothing factual about herself unless she is cornered. Instead, for
example, we learn of her brief marriage to Allan Grey when she relives his death and describes his suicide to Mitch (Williams 96). We learn of her promiscuity when Stanley
tells Stella that hes done some checking on Blanche and found out about her unsavory past, including her affair with a 17 year old schoolboy (Williams 101). But she
never confides in Stella, her closest living relation, which we might expect if she were not so self-deluded. Blanche is "intelligent and sensitive"; a woman "who values literature and
thus the creativity of the human imagination [but] she is also emotionally traumatized and repressed. Thus, her own imagination becomes a haven from her pain" (Galloway). We come to
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