Illusion+and+fantasy

|| ONE || || TWO || || THREE || || FOUR || || FIVE || || SIX || || SEVEN || || EIGHT || || NINE || Blanche keeps Mitch under the illusion that she is younger than Stella. When Mitch asks to turn the lights on she goes into a fright as seen by “fearfully” (pg72) in the stage directions. She believes that by keeping Mitch under this illusion he will like her more. Blanche herself seems to be living in an illusion in order to escape from her horrid past. She says “I misrepresent things to them” (pg72). This shows her insecurity and her need to forget her past by living in a world of fantasy.  || TEN || Throughout this scene, Blanche fantasizes in her drunken state and her illusions seem to take over her mind and become a reality to her: //“As the drinking and packing went on, a mood of hysterical exhilaration came into her and she has decked herself out in a somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown…”//- The stage directions clearly state that she is in a “hysterical exhilaration” and has dressed up. //“Then- just now- this wire- inviting me on a cruise of the Caribbean! The problem is clothes.” –// Blanche tries to make it seem so realistic with the excitement, the over-enthusiastic short phrases that it becomes less believable. It also seems that she wants to believe it herself, that she’s living in this fantasy and wishes it was true. “//Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and the richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart- and I have all of those things- aren’t taken away, but grow! Increase with the years! How strange that I should be called a destitute woman! When I have all of these treasures locked in my heart. I think of myself as a very, very rich woman…”// - This statements is almost ironic as she tries to make her physical beauty work for her even though it has “passed”. She can’t seem to understand that her mind has deteriorated and this gives and insight into the readers mind that Blanche is going mad. || ELEVEN || ||
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