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- Emotional; hysterical; descending further into fantasy and delusion
- Frail, but hides it behind feigned extravagance
- Lost; unsure of what to do without her money or social status
- Sexual; flirtatious
- Snobbish; elitist; looks down on Stanley for his lower class
- Vulnerable; insecure, especially about her age and looks
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- Main protagonist of the play
- Could also be called an anti-hero
- Creates drama and conflict, particularly between Stanley and Stella
- Represents the upper class, contrasting with Stanley, who represents the lower class
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- Blanche enters the play as a liar who knows she is lying. However, she descends further and further into her fantasies until they become delusions, indistinguishable from reality.
- Blanche's relationship with Stanley deteriorates throughout the play, inevitably leading to the **** in Scene 10
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- English teacher; fired after becoming involved with a pupil
- 'Turn that over-light off! Turn that off! I won't be looked at in this merciless glare.' (1.75)
- 'A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.' (2.129)
- 'I don't want realism, I want magic!' (9.43)
- 'I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth.' (9.43)
- 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers' (11.123)
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