A Streetcar Named Desire.
             Character sketch of Blanche DuBois
             Blanche DuBois is one of the main characters of Williams' famous play. The play has an array of symbolic but minor other characters, which enhance the uniqueness of the main character, like Stella Kowalski and her husband Stanley Kowlaski and Harold "Mitch" Mitchell.
             The story revolves around the last two daughters of an old Southern dynasty The DuBois'. Blanche is the epitome of the southern charm. While Stella her sister is the polar opposite, who marries a working class Stanley Kowalski and severs almost all her connections to her illustrious primogenitors.
             Blanche's character has varying shades of delusions and inferiority, which were probably ingrained in her by her deep Southern upbringing that emphasized these weaknesses in females. She was to follow the example set probably by her mother to live like the lady of the house supported by her husband. Which was a very wrong stance to have when you are on the verge of a defunct dynasty and endless debt brought upon by squandering away all the family fortunes. Her efforts to keep the pomp and the fanfare proved too meager and resulted in the auctioning of the Belle Rever (her familial mansion). She even taught at a local school to make a living, but her spirit that never had been resilient enough was further degraded. Making her take cover in a world of her own where she could live in the same fashion without thinking about it. That she really did not mean to tell lies it was just that she believed that to be the truth. For somebody whose whole life has been a series of pretenses it was not very hard to do. She wanted to remain cocooned in her "dis-reality" where she did not sleep with men for money or never had a young husband who killed himself.
             The husband who was a homosexual and his appa
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