Table of Contents
- 1 Why does Mitch break up with Blanche?
- 2 What reason does Blanche give Mitch for refusing his romantic advances?
- 3 Why did Blanche’s marriage fail?
- 4 Who cries at the end when Blanche is taken away?
- 5 What does the relationship between Blanche and Mitch say about love and marriage?
- 6 What does Mitch reveal that surprises Blanche about their relationship?
- 7 What mental illness does Blanche Dubois have?
- 8 Why does Blanche go insane at the end of the play?
- 9 Why is Blanche writing a letter to Shep huntleight?
- 10 Where does the story of Blanche DuBois take place?
Why does Mitch break up with Blanche?
Mitch is suspicious of Blanche’s interest in his mother, so she backs off, saying she just wants to know the source of Mitch’s sour mood.
What reason does Blanche give Mitch for refusing his romantic advances?
So she doesn’t get lost. Why must Blanche resist Mitch’s advances? She does not want to appear easy.
Does Mitch marry Blanche?
Mitch doesn’t show up to Blanche’s birthday party because Stanley told him about Blanche’s past in Laurel. Blanche doesn’t give in; she still wants Mitch to marry her. Mitch passes on the marriage offer, insults Blanche, and leaves. In the final scene of the play, Mitch is ashamed and on edge.
Why did Blanche’s marriage fail?
In the middle of the dance, Blanche told her young husband that he disgusted her. This deliberate act of cruelty on Blanche’s part caused her young husband to commit suicide. Blanche has always thought she failed her young lover when he most needed her.
Who cries at the end when Blanche is taken away?
A few weeks later, Stella cries while packing Blanche’s belongings. Blanche is taking a bath. Stanley and his buddies are playing poker in the kitchen, which the stage directions describe as having the same ghastly atmosphere as on the poker night when Stanley beat Stella.
Who is the victim in A Streetcar Named Desire?
Blanche Dubois is the central victim of mistreatment even though she had tried to make Stanley the victim. She displays her self as fragile and moth like, dealing out her share of insensitivities that happened during her younger days.
What does the relationship between Blanche and Mitch say about love and marriage?
Mitch and Blanche are an example of a co-dependent relationship that is founded on mutual loneliness and the desire to be with someone —anyone—to distract themselves from previously suffered emotional damage. The only reason these two are together at all is out of mutual need. Or, as Mitch says, “You need somebody.
What does Mitch reveal that surprises Blanche about their relationship?
Mitch tells Blanche that he likes her because she is different from anyone he has ever met, an independent spirit. Blanche laughs and invites him in for a nightcap.
What happened to Blanche’s former husband?
After Blanche´s husband Allan committed suicide, Blanche is traumatized and is not able to have a relationship anymore. When she visits her sister Stella, she decides that she would like to marry Mitch, but not because she feels attracted by him.
What mental illness does Blanche Dubois have?
s psychological disorder is indeed schizophrenia. Thus, the symptoms of Blanche Dubois? personality disorder are disturbances of perception, delusions and illusions, and withdrawal from reality….Abstract.
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Why does Blanche go insane at the end of the play?
In the Kowalski household, Blanche pretends to be a woman who has never known indignity. Stanley himself takes the final stabs at Blanche, destroying the remainder of her sexual and mental esteem by raping her and then committing her to an insane asylum.
What did Mitch say to Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire?
– Mitch responds to Blanche by saying that Stanley doesn’t really talk about her. Blanche believes that Stanley hates her and the only reason she is staying is because Stella is having a baby. Mitch is surprised to hear this from Blanche Blanche and Mitch discuss Stanley.
Why is Blanche writing a letter to Shep huntleight?
In Scene Five, Blanche is writing a letter to Shep Huntleight. Why does she not tell him the truth of her situation? – I think Blanche is drinking again because she is drinking away her sorrows of what has gone the past few years.
Where does the story of Blanche DuBois take place?
Set in New Orleans, Louisiana shortly after World War II, the play explores the plight of impoverished Southern gentry and the rapid changes of Southern society in the industrial age. The protagonist, Blanche DuBois, has come to visit her sister, Stella, who lives in a shabby neighborhood in New Orleans near the railroad tracks.