history. The clearest example of this is also one of the most intense and
             involving scenes of the entire play. In scene nine, Blanche is confronted
             by Mitch, who has learned the truth about her past. Mitch tells Blanche
             that he has never seen her in the light. He tears Blanche's paper lantern
             off of the plain, bright light bulb, and tries to see her as she really is,
             and not in a view warped by Blanche's efforts to make herself seem more
             innocent, young, and beautiful than she is. Blanche responds to this by
             saying "I don't want realism. I want magic!...I try to give that to people.
             I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to
             be truth...Don't turn the light on!" This intense, frightening scene
             reveals to the audience the way Blanche views the world. Tennessee
             Williams's use of this kind of dual view of the world to develop Blanche's
             character is a perfect example of the way A Streetcar Named Desire makes
             the audience react to the characters in the play. It is this reaction
             between the audience and the brilliant characters in the play that makes
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