A Streetcar Named Desire

Stella and Blanche talk a lot in acts three and four. Blanche wants Stella to leave Stanley. She asks is she remembers a man she used to date in college. This man is now rich from oil mines in Texas, Blanche claims he will help them. But what Blanche still doesn't understand is that Stella wont leave her husband and father of her soon to be child. Blanche goes on about how terrible Stanley is and how she is better than that and deserves better. Blanche tells Stella that she wants Mitch and that she is nervous because he is coming over to take her out and she is worried because she wants him to like her and she doesn't want him to think she is old. Stanley confronts Blanche asking her if she knows a a man named Shaw from the Flamingo hotel. Blanche tells him that the man must have her confused. Blanche is obviously lying, because right after Stanley leaves Blanches cries out to Stella asking her what she has heard about her. Stella says nothing and Blanche says she has been bad for the past two years since she lost Belle Reve. Stella leave Blanche at home to go to the bowling alley where Stanley is because Blanche is waiting for Mitch to get her. But while Blanche is waiting a young man collecting for the paper come by and Blanche being the woman that she is she can't resist so she kisses the young man than send him on his way. Then as the boy is leaving Mitch comes around the corner with a bunch of roses for Blanche she seems as though she is blown away.