... DuBois succinctly summarizes herself and her vision of the world with two words: "I misrepresent."" (A Streetcar Named Desire, hereafter SND, p. 117 ). In fact, she misrepresents virtually everything about herself and her world. For Blanche DuBois, the world is composed of multiple elements in which she either deceives herself ... words ask directions of the woman on the stoop; on another they symbolize her life journey and state a major theme of the play: They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at "Elys...

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