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Blanche Dubois In A Streetcar Named Desire

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In many works of literature there have been instances where a character’s present attitudes, activities or values are negatively affected by their past events, such as in the case of Blanche DuBois, a character in the play, A Streetcar named Desire. Blanche DuBois’s relation to the past causes her to have pedophiliac behavior as well as flirtatious and insecure attitudes.
Blanche DuBois arrives in the household of Stanley and Stella Kowalski dressed in white, the symbol of purity and innocence. She is sensitive, refined and intelligent. Blanche prefers imagination over realism, which makes her character too fragile to face the harsh realities of a brutal world. At 16, Blanche married a young boy, and unexpectedly found him in a compromising
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