Discuss Blanche's desires in A Streetcar Named Desire. For example, one of her desires is sexual, as she is attracted to Stanley when she first...

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of the first things we learn about Blanche is that she longs to cling to her image of an
innocent, beautiful southern belle. She proudly tells Stella that "I weigh what I weighed
the summer you left Belle Reve" and asks her to "turn that over-light off! I won't be
looked at in this merciless glare!" Despite the fact that she is clearly no longer the
virginal belle, Blanche clings to this identity as a way of rewriting her past; if she can
position herself as the naive ing©nue, she has a better chance of "snaring" a man and
therefore ensuring her economic stability. Thus, she desires to be seen as young and
inexperienced, and this desire stands in such stark opposition to the truth that as her
lies...