ay her problems make Blanche ashamed of her life
             and identity. Desire was the "rattle-trap streetcar" that brought her to
             Blanche is the most fascinating character in A Streetcar Named
             Desire. One reason for this is that she has an absolutely brilliant way of
             making reality seem like fantasy, and making fantasy seem like reality.
             This element of Blanche's personality is what makes her character interest
             the audience and contribute to the excellence of the work. Returning to
             the beginning of the play, Blanche, shocked with the dirtiness and
             gloominess of Stella and Stanley's home in New Orleans, looks out the
             window and says "Out there I suppose is the ghoul-haunted woodland of
             Weir!", to which Stella replies "No honey, those are the L and N tracks."
             Blanche would assume that something so common and simple as noisy, dark
             railroad tracks might as well be "ghoul-haunted woodlands." Further
             evidence of Blanche's warped view of reality and fantasy is shown
             throughout the entire play. She seems to hint to Stella and Stanley, and
             therefore the audience, that she is actually much more than she seems. In
             scene seven, Blanche soaks in a tub, singing:
             "Say, it's only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea
             -But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me!
             It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be
             -But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me!"
             As she sings this song, telling the story of her tendency to believe a more
             pleasant, warped view of reality over the actual reality, Stanley is
             telling Stella the horrifying truth about Blanche's scandalous past. The
             reader is as drawn into Blanche's illusion as much as Stella is, and just
             as Stella refuses to believe Stanley's harsh words, the audience also does
             not want to accept that the view they have had of Blanche for a good deal
             of the play is nothing more than a story made up to hide her unpleasant
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