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	Streetcar Named Desire - Character of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire
		Blanche is Stella's younger sister who has come to visit Stella and her husband Stanley in New Orleans.
		Blanche's lifelong habit of avoiding unpleasant realities leads to her breakdown as seen in her irrational response to death, her dependency, and her inability to defend herself from Stanley's attacks.
		Blanche made a grave mistake by trying to act like a lady, or trying to be what she thought a lady ought to be.
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	Evenings of Classical Music - Bahrain: 25 July 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blanche DuBois, a teacher of English literature in a provincial American school, is suffering from severe depression.
		Blanche however, urges her sister to leave Stanley, despite the fact that she is expecting his child.
		Blanche has convinced herself that a wealthy admirer is about to call to take her away on holiday.
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	A Streetcar Named Desire -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blanche DuBois is a fading Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her (Abnormally intense sexual desire in women) nymphomania and (Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms) alcoholism.
		Blanche and Stanley, together with (United States playwright (born 1915)) Arthur Miller's (Click link for more info and facts about Willy Loman) Willy Loman, are among the most recognizable characters in American drama.
		Blanche has to travel on it to reach Stella's home, the idea being that she has already indulged in desire before she arrives.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/a/a_streetcar_named_desire.htm (721 words)

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		Blanche DuBois: A Belle in the grand tradition of declining Southern gentry, Blanche is beautiful, fragile, vivacious and intelligent - all the things a proper Southern lady should be.
		Blanch DuBois is a genteel Southern lady with an aristocratic pedigree.
		Blanche counsels Stella to leave Stanley because she (Stella) is pregnant and her husband is abusive, giving Stanley solid grounds for his hatred.
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	Streetcar Named Desire - Notes
		Blanche values her past with the Southern manners and maintains the speech of the dying South.
		She is an alcoholic and because of all this Blanche deserves what happens to her and it isn't so much a tragedy, but Williams saying this is what happens to people who don't face the truth and live in dream worlds.
		Blanche is also the only advocate in the play of the values of civilization.
	www.geocities.com /amliterature/williams/blanche.htm (653 words)

	Blanche DuBois (In-Depth Analysis)
		Blanche depends on male sexual admiration for her sense of self-esteem, which means that she has often succumbed to passion.
		As Blanche sees it, Mitch is her only chance for contentment, even though he is far from her ideal.
		In the end, Blanche blindly allows herself to be led away by a kind doctor, ignoring her sister’s cries.
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	Blanche DuBois
		Blanche had expected to find Stella in a different social situation, but because of the fact that she had not seen her in a long time, her image of Stella was an illusion.
		Blanche thinks of Mitch as a future husband, and therefore she does not want him to know her past or her true age, and the best way to hide her age is to stay out of bright light where he could possibly see her wrinkles and fading youth in her face.
		Blanche does not find a way out of it: at the end of the play she is being taken away to the mental institution, which means that she finally does not conquer her fate.
	www.uni-bayreuth.de /departments/anglistik/ST-Williams1.htm (5025 words)

	PlanetPapers - A short Analysis of Blanche DuBois. A Streetcar Named Desire
		Blanche DuBois: Blanche’s first appearance in the play, Scene 1, sets the tone for her character throughout.
		Even her name “Blanche” is French for the colour white, a symbolism of both her French aristocratic ancestry and the “whiteness” of her personality.
		Blanche is a deeply insecure and neurotic woman who relies heavily on the compliments and sexual admiration of men to help her feel secure about her appearance,” admire her dress and tell her she is looking wonderful.
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		Blanche was upset and enraged by his remarks, that she took her suitcase and hit Shep on the head.
		Blanche kept on saying she met an octopus named Fred Ryerson who told her everyone was trying to kill her.
		After Blanche recovered completely she was sent back to the same exact mental hospital where she was before; but this time the hospital wasn’t kind to Blanche, they had to stay in the same kind of room as everyone’s; white walls, a rocking chair and a small, uncomfortable bed.
	www.freewebs.com /sweettooth/writings/blanche.htm (750 words)

	Kristen Gibson
		DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams), Troy Maxson (Fences by Wilson) and Perry Smith (In Cold Blood by Capote), are three people who hide behind masks in an attempt to be confident and faultless.
		For example, in the case of Blanche DuBois we are introduced to a woman who portrays herself as a southern belle, a woman who is supposed to be genteel.
		Mary Ann Corrigan writes that DuBois is far from perfect, and the audience can see just that in her drinking of alcohol and her slight comments towards her sister and brother-in-law (575).
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	A Streetcar Named Desire Book Notes Summary by Tennessee Williams: Major Characters
		Blanche Dubois: Blanche Dubois is the older sister of Stella Kowalski who visits them in New Orleans and stays throughout the summer.
		Blanche cannot be around direct light and is overly concerned with her appearance, accessories, bathing, and age.
		Blanche believes that she is to go on a Caribbean cruise with him and that he will save her from the New Orleans trap in which she currently lives.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/snd/CHR.htm (847 words)

	PlanetPapers - The Real Blanche DuBois
		The moment Blanche DuBois, Tennessee William’s central character in A Streetcar Named Desire, enters the small New Orleans apartment that Stanley and Stella Kowalski share, one can sense exactly what Blanche is, or at least what she chooses to be.
		Blanche DuBois, as the reader soon discovers, has created a sort of glass cube around herself, for protection, and people such as Stanley threaten to shatter that glass cube by learning her secrets.
		Blanche begins to date Mitch and he falls in love with her; it’s as if Blanche’s dream might finally come true.
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	Exam Question: A Streetcar Named Desire
		This is not to say that Blanche does not communicate with the Negro woman, but it gives the impression from the way Blanche acts in other situations that she is not as ‘modern’ as the people who live in New Orleans.
		Over her head he grins through the curtains at Blanche.” They both seem to want to be close to Stella and at times it seems that Blanche is jealous of the relationship between Stella and Stanley.
		He thinks Blanche must be lying about the loss and Belle Reve and that Blanche has been living an extravagant lifestyle since the loss of the family home and believes he should receive some of this money, even though there isn’t any really.
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	LiteratureClassics.com -- Essay -- Blanche Dubois Analysis
		Blanche Dubois was formally an English schoolteacher in the small suburb of Laurel, Mississippi.
		At the end of the play Blanche Dubois is sent away to an insane asylum, and life resumes in New Orleans as if she never arrived on the train.
		Blanche turned to sex, to intimacies with strangers, when she could no longer bear the death that surrounded her.
	www.literatureclassics.com /showessayprint.asp?IDNo=115 (764 words)

	Idealism and Insanity
		Blanche makes it very clear to everyone she meets that she is a Southern belle of the first order, but this presentation of self, her social standing, and her sanity are all compromised as Blanche's checkered past and ravenous sexual appetite come to light.
		Blanche's neurotic qualities are not immediately seen, in part because she explicitly claims in scene three that she does, in fact, possess a mental resiliency and the ability to adapt to whatever she may face.
		Blanche's sister, Stella, is not restricted by the Southern belle persona, and she is able to face reality and the passing of history effectively.
	www.uiowa.edu /~smack/archive/smack1.1/ess1.htm (2943 words)

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		Typical of Williams in its characters and theme, Streetcar pits Blanche DuBois, a neurasthenic faded Southern belle who represents the culture and beauty of the past as well as its decadence, against her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, the personification of modern practicality, crudeness, cynicism, and brutality.
		Blanche's childlike helplessness, romantic yearnings, and pretensions to gentility, sharply at odds with her age and the squalor of her present surroundings--her sister's New Orleans tenement--suggest an already tenuous hold on reality that completely collapses when Stanley's ruthless exposure of her past brings about Blanche's final disintegration.
		When Blanche was a teenager, she married a young boy whom she worshipped; the boy turned out to be depressive and homosexual, and not long after their marriage he committed suicide.
	www.restonplayers.org /streetcarCharacterInfo.txt (679 words)

	Blanche DuBois
		Blanche DuBois - Stella’s older sister, who was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi, until she was forced to leave her post.
		Blanche is a loquacious and fragile woman around the age of thirty.
		Stanley sees through Blanche and finds out the details of her past, destroying her relationship with his friend Mitch. Stanley also destroys what’s left of Blanche by raping her and then having her committed to an insane asylum.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/streetcar/terms/char_1.html (142 words)

	Watermarks 2000
		A major problem that both Blanche and Amanda face is their misconception of reality and the "New South." "The predominant theme of these plays is Southern womanhood helpless in the grip of the new world, while its old world of social position and financial security is a paradise lost (Gassner 78).
		Blanche does not have the happy memories of the past that Amanda does, only sorrow, so her retreats are more physical.
		Blanche of Streetcar is trying to escape her recollections of a tragedy that has left her wallowing in solitude, eventually destroying her hopes for a future as well.
	www.llp.armstrong.edu /watermarks2/hh.html (1007 words)

	Blanche DuBois: Chasing Magic, Fleeing the Dark : NPR
		Blanche DuBois, the fallen Southern belle at the center of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, has been a character so rich and so complex that bringing her to life is one of acting's greatest challenges.
		Playing Blanche was stage and screen veteran Shirley Knight — Oscar-nominated for her performance opposite Paul Newman in the film of Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, and familiar to contemporary pop-culture fans as Bree Van de Kamp's poisonous mother-in-law on Desperate Housewives.
		And so when Blanche holds onto the arm of the doctor who is taking her away — when she tells him she has "always depended on the kindness of strangers" — she turns her own tragedy into an unexpected moment of grace.
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	Streetcar Named Desire - Synopsis
		Like the fabric of her fine white dress, Blanche (which means "washed out", "pale", "white") is a delicate article of roughly handled at the hands of her brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, a symbol of everything primitive, masculine and dominant.
		He stomps on Blanche's efforts to flatter and sway him with her lady-like manner and gentility.
		Amidst all of this, Blanche tries to rebuild her life in New Orleans where no one knows her and the checkered past she had back home in Belle Reve (which means "Beautiful Dream").
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Den/1151/williams/synopsis.htm (279 words)

	ipedia.com: A Streetcar Named Desire Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blanche DuBois is a fading southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her nymphomania and alcoholism.
		After her ancestral southern plantation is "lost" (due to the "epic fornications" of her ancestors), Blanche arrives at her sister's house in the French Quarter of New Orleans where the multicutural setting is a shock to her nerves.
		Blanche and Stanley, together with Arthur Miller's Willy Loman, are among the most recognizable characters in American drama.
	www.ipedia.com /a_streetcar_named_desire.html (551 words)

	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Memorable quotes
		Blanche DuBois: Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of.
		Blanche DuBois: This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr.
		Blanche DuBois: Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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	Hausarbeiten.de: A Characterization - Decline and Fall of Blanche DuBois In "A Streetcar named Desire" by Tennessee ...
		The entire scene is a drama of misunderstanding, accentuated by Blanche′s wild but purposeless effort to rescue her sister, and thus the family, from animalistic forces, which are presented by Stanley in the opinion of Blanche.
		Blanche is past her spring, and the purity of Blanche-white is undermined by the thicket of DuBois-woods.
		Blanche is cruel to her husband, rude to Eunice, patronizing to Stella, and arrogant to Stanley.
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	Dissertations, Essays on The Destruction of Blanche DuBois
		Blanche was described by Tennessee Williams as delicate and moth-like.
		Blanche is at the mercy of the brutal, realistic world.
		But being brutally raped by him in the end destroyed her because he was not a starnger, he knew her, he made her face reality, and in a way he exposed her to the bright luminous light she could not stand all her life.
	www.essayboom.com /essay/The_Destruction_of_Blanche_DuB-11829.html (171 words)

	Comparing Mary Tyrone to Blanche DuBois - Associated Content
		Blanche drinks heavily to forget about losing the family plantation, Belle Reve, due to the countless number of deaths she had to handle on her own and the funerals she had to pay for.
		Blanche had a very shady past to hide from herself and from others - especially in her quest to find a husband to rescue her from her current state.
		Blanche couldn't come to grips with her past, her aging, and her inability to find somewhere to hide--a place where she could start anew without her past following and haunting her.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/453312/comparing_mary_tyrone_to_blanche_dubois.html (596 words)

	A Streetcar Named Desire by Tenessee Williams
		I n analyzing the main character of the story, Blanche DuBois, it is crucial to use both the literal text as well as the symbols of the story to get a complete and thorough understanding of her.
		Blanche left her home to join her sister, because her life was a miserable wreck in her former place of residence.
		When Mitch, Blanche's boyfriend, is "enlightened" by Stanley about her history he proceeds to rip off the paper lantern from the light bulb, and demands to take a good look at her face (Corrigan 54).
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	A Streetcar Named Desire: Character Analyses: Blanche DuBois - CliffsNotes
		Thus Blanche’s imagined failure to her young husband and her constant encounter with the ugliness of death forced the delicate young girl to seek distraction by and forgetfulness through intimacies with strangers and through alcohol which could make the tune in her head stop.
		In actuality, Blanche’s action in the first part of the play indicates that on first acquaintance, when Stanley was a stranger, she desired him or at least flirted with him.
		Blanche’s last remarks in the play seem to echo pathetically her plight and predicament in life.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-115,pageNum-30.html (1171 words)

	triple j's unearthed 2002 - Bands: Western Australia - Blanche DuBois (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blanche DuBois with their talent for writing and musicianship entered the Perth music scene at the begining of 2002 and have carved their niche as one of Perth's promising bands.
		In 2002 Brooke and Hayley joined the band adding their talents to the sound that is Blanche DuBois.
		Blanche DuBois sound is best described as sweet accousticism with a blend of mellow rock.
	www.abc.net.au /triplej/unearthed/bands/s720850.htm (236 words)

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