Theme Essay As time goes on, it’s said that people will grow more mature, but there are situations in where this is not true. Sometimes people who are immature and very cruel know how to have double faces and seem mature. An example of a character like this is Blanche from the book “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams. This play is taken in the 1940’s in New Orlean. Blanche is one of the characters who is in the story and her name means white and pure which we learn that she is the opposite of. As time goes on she does not get mature but it seems that she is losing control of herself and does not think through what she wants to do and shows a lot of her cruelty to the people she is surrounded by. She was very cruel to her sister, makes up lies that only end up hurt Mitch. To begin with, Blanche is a “women” who got married early, and the husband kills herself, and so she becomes a widow, who gets fired from her job as an English teacher and comes into her sister’s house for the first time. Instead of being polite she …show more content…
When Blanche and Mitch first meet each other, she lies to him that she was not married and that she is here to take care of her younger sister because she is pregnant. Believing these lies, Mitch ends up falling in love with her, “‘I have never known anyone like you,’ Blanche looks at him gravely, and then she burst into laughter and claps her hand on her mouth” (Williams 87). This shows that she does not take him serious and is always looking to mess around with him. When mitch learns about her past from Stanley who is Stella's husband, that she messed around with a lot of guys and that she was once married, Mitch didn’t want her anymore, and called her