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- Anxious, maybe suffering from a mental illness such has anxiety or depression
- She has a drink problem which she hides poorly as she is constantly having Stan's alcohol
- She is aging and lives in a perpetual panic about her aging as she asks for dim lighting and only goes places that are dark when with Mitch.
- Her manner is dainty and frail and she owns a very showy collection of cheap evening clothes which Stan see's straight through and outs her.
- Depends on male sexual desire for her self esteem.
- Beneath her veneer of snobbery she is an insecure individual.
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- Blanche arrives at her sister's having lost their family fortune in their estate Belle Reve.
- Lost her young husband to suicide and she has not gotten over it.
- She is a social pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behaviour back in Laurel
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- When in the Kawolski household she claims to be a women who has suffered no indignity and who is pure.
- Feels as if she has to marry Mitch so that she can put poverty and her bad reputation behind her.
- Stan's constant persecution of Blanche ruins her persuit of Mitch and her oblivious nature to her situation.
- Stan then rapes her destroying the amount of sanity and self esteem she had, she is then sent to an insane asylum.
- The play ends in a sad way as it reminds the audience of Blanche's dependence on men for happiness as she is led away by a kind doctor despite her sisters cries.
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- "... I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I cant be alone!"
- "She pours half a tumbler of whisky and tosses it down"
- "Now don't get worried, your sister hasn't turned in to a drunkard"
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