How Does Stanley Present Blanche

Throughout the whole play, Blanche's presence, actions and thoughts have had an effect on all the characters, especially Stella, Stanley and Mitch. Whether it was Blanche's fantasy prone personality clashing with Stanley's "living in the physical world" ideologies, Stella's culpable irresponsibility contrasting with Blanche's dramatic nature, or Blanche's promiscuity causing Mitch to become disgusted by her, enough to completely shut down any hope for starting a romantic relationship, her character has been very successful in bringing out different sides of the other characters that we may have never learnt otherwise. This is why, when Blanche is institutionalised against her own will, the reactions of these three characters reveal their true

Mitch has always been a man of few words, and he is not any different in the last scene, though the way he structures his sentences suggests that all the thoughts he has been repressing have just burst out of him. He blames Stanley, calls him out and tells him it's because of his "God damn interfering things" that there is so much conflict. The hypocrisy here is tremendous; when Mitch found out about Blanche's sexual history, he was very judgemental as he wanted a "pure" and "clean" woman, which feed into the sexist views their society contains. Mitch wants what Stanley has, a submissive woman that has been brainwashed into thinking that that is all she'll ever live, and that her husband has the right to do whatever he pleases with her. If Mitch was so comfortable spewing these misogynistic words, why is he suddenly so appalled by how Stanley treated Blanche? Mitch doesn't know that Stanley raped Blanche, so why does he think that his judgment of Blanche is any better than Stanley's? Mitch is a very weak character; we do see him standing up to Stanley in the last scene, but it is very likely that he will stay friends with him, and still attend the poker nights at his