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A Street Car Named Desire : Blanche's Illusions
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A Street Car Named Desire : Blanche's Illusions Throughout the play, Blanche reveals that she has several illusions about herself. Her character and certain things that she does show that she is perhaps not 'fully there', and has certain perceptions of herself that she tries to show to others as being a reality when in fact it they are all really just in her mind. I think that Blanche uses drink as a get away. In the first few scenes there are several references both in the dialogue and in the stage directions to her drinking. I think that drink is her way to escape reality. When she drinks she can forget and when she forgets she is free and can forget her past and the things that she has done. In scene one as soon as she greets Stella before they really get talking she says 'Open your pretty mouth...
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