... ages. It gets revealed in the last conversation she has with Mitch that she had many intimacies with strangers after Allan's death in a hotel. "Intimacies with strangers was I seemed able to fill my empty heart with" (Williams 146). After Allan's death it was the only way she knew how to cope. She lost her job as a teacher for fraternizing with ... the paperboy at Stella's apartment. It's one of the ways that makes her feel better about herself when she wants to feel wanted and help fill that of abandonment of Allan's death. When Blanche was sixteen she found love and got married. Her h...

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... a family. Then her young husband committed suicide. "Then somebody caught my arm. "Don't go any closer! Come back! You don't want to see!" See? See what! Then I heard voices say - Allan! Allan! The Grey boy! He'd stuck the revolver into his mouth and fired - so that the back of his head had been - blown away (page 96)." After that, Blanche began her ... ...

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... with Mitch rests in him believing her act throughout this play. "She wants Mitch to absolve, forgive, release her from the great cruelty of her past, because like her husband Allan Grey, Blanche wants to be loved for who she is."" (Costanzo 3) (One of Blanche's many illusions is that she claims to want only illusion.) She feels that her act is ... ...

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... , and prudent. Her name is French and she says, 'It [Dubois] means woods and Blanche means white, so the two together mean white woods. She was married to a man named Allan, who committed suicide when she was very young. She drinks and smokes and is not very trustworthy. She suffers from repeated visions of hearing polka tunes and gunshots. Blanche cannot ... ...

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... covering it up. Later in the play Stanley "brings to light" the true facts of Blanche's life (Pg 54). Also in this story, Blanche could not forget the death of Allan, her husband who was homosexual. She mentions: "I didn't know anything except I loved him unendurably but without being able to help him or help myself. Then I found out in the worst ... ...

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