Blanche Dubois Reality

Self-Perception plays a dominant role in the hunt to reconcile in the conflict between illusion and reality. How an individual views themselves often causes it to be much harder to reconcile between reality and fantasy. Tennessee Williams character Blanche Dubois from A streetcar named desire is a perfect example of how the way you see yourself affects the way you live in existence with reality. Throughout the book, Blanche Dubois struggles to differentiate the difference between reality and her own illusions. Blanche views herself as pure and innocent and chooses to ignore the reality of who she truly is. Blanche's past is full of perfect memories with love and family While her present is full of death, failure and disappointment this brutal

She sees herself as pure and innocent which is a far step away from what she truly is. Blanche is always hiding in the dark and avoiding leaving the comfort of the indoors during the day this is all in an attempt to hide the fact with age her beauty is fading. She is fixated on her youth and the need to be seen as beautiful. The reality is that Blanche had once been pure and innocent in her youth, back when everything in her life was perfect and figured out. With time, she has changed in purity and innocence, ever since the death of her young husband Allan, she has been in a desperate attempt to recreate what she had with him. In an attempt to suppress the guilt from Allan’s death and the loss of Belle Reve she involves herself in many sexual relations. After Belle Reve is sold to pay outstanding debts Blanche moves to Hotel Flamingo, A dirty old hotel that is known to house many people to whom are involved in prostitution and other activities that are frowned upon by the general public. Although Blanche only stayed at the hotel for a short time she did have many sexual relations with multiple men. From the viewpoint of reality these promiscuous relations she has destroyed her innocence. Her self-perception in being truly innocent so she is blind to these facts of reality. This conflict between her self-perception and the perception of reality makes the need for illusion to