Blanche Monologue

Later, Blanche opens up to Mitch and tells him about her past with her ex husband. Stanley doesn’t stop snooping through Blanche’s things because he is determined to find out the truth behind Blanche. He soon finds out that Blanche didn’t leave her job like she told them she did. She was actually fired because she was involved sexually with a student. Stanley also discovered that Blanche was actually kicked out of Laurel because she was sexually involved with the local soldiers. Of course Stanley runs to Mitch and Stella and tells them about everything he found out. Later, Mitch confronts Blanche about her past. She says she was so lonely that she needed to be with men. Stanley comes back from the hospital and Blanche tells him that she’s leaving with her friend. He calls her a liar and starts to grab her and eventually, he rapes her.
In the end of the play, Blanche thinks she’s going to the country but she is really going to a mental institution. They go outside and Blanche sees that a doctor and nurse are waiting for her. At first she fights the nurse, but the doctor calms her down and she begins to trust him and they leave.
In A Streetcar Named Desire the audience recognizes the way Blanche operates has a lot to do with her perception of herself as an object to men.
When Blanche and Stella get home from their night out, she meets Mitch and it doesn’t take long for her to begin pursing and frolic with him. In scene 2/3 Blanche flirts with Mitch, showing that she is feminine and sensual. She tried to make it seem harmless. They seem to really hit it off, and sexuality is the central reason of the relationship. However, Blanche and Mitch do not see one another as sexually as Stella and Stanley see each other. They want company and not to be lonely more than the
passion.
Stanley may be harsh at times but Stella truly is attractive towards him and Stanley is attracted towards Stella as well. Stanley is violent towards Stella but their sexual dynamic keeps them together. The audience sees that their feelings for each other are intense. The strong desire that Stella and Stanley communicate is exemplified at the end of Scene three. Stanley is screaming for Stella. She is angry with him for hitting her, but of course she returns to him. She slowly walks down the staircase and into his arms and the scene is full of sexual tension. Blanche explains to Stella that she doesn’t agree with the way Stanley treats her. Stella’s response to Blanche is “But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark - that sort of make everything else seem - unimportant. (p. 81)”. Stella is explaining that their love is fiery and physical. Throughout the play, sexual desire is connected to destruction especially when Stanley rapes blanche. Blanche's mission for sexual desire has provoked the loss of Belle Reve and her discharge from her old town. Blanche's story of her husband's death does not involve their sexuality. She discovered that he was with an older man and told him how disgusted she was by his actions. His discomfiture and being rejected by Blanche caused him to commit suicide.