Blanche, which is Stella 's older sister, arrives in New Orleans as a broken, arrogant, sensitive, and an obvious crumbling figure. Blanche was once married and very much in love with a young man who seemed to be very tortured. He committed suicide after she discovered that he was a homosexual man, and ever since suffering from regret and guilt! Blanche watched as her parents and relatives passed away. She had to endure many hard trials including watching foreclosure fall on their family estate! Blanche demonstrates actions as any human being would and cracks under pressure! Perhaps she had so many emotions suppressed inside her that they now could no longer be contained. Blanche participates in a series of sexual ‘’adventures’’ that trigger …show more content…
Blanche is by far one of the most complex characters of the entire play! She is a very intelligent and sensitive woman who understands the values of literature and the possibilities of the human imagination. She is also very emotionally traumatized and unstable. This, in a sense gives her own imagination permission to become a safe haven to store her pain! Blanches personal opinion of her real self as opposed to how she would like to be has been increasingly blurred over the years! It becomes a challenge to find the solution to Blanche 's misery but perhaps the incidents of her trauma lie from within in her early marriage! She was haunted because she could not help or understand her young and troubled husband and because of this she has tortured herself for it ever since! Blanche’s idea to lose herself from the acts of ‘’kind strangers’’ might also be understood from a period in which her sense of confidence in her own female attraction was questioned by the knowledge of her husband 's homosexuality! "Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." (Scene 11, pg. 235) This drives her to ‘’test’’ her skills and sexual charm so to speak, to try and attract men over and over! Nether less, beneath all of this there is a yearning to find a companion, to find fulfilment in not only herself but to fall in