“Stay back! Don’t you come toward me another step or I’ll-----.”This is one of the things Blanche says before she finally breaks down. This scene is like the breaking point for her, and it leads her to completely lose it. She’s getting to the point where she can’t take it anymore, she can’t deal with everything that’s happened. In this paper I will be talking about Blanche’s gradual breakdown, whether she’s the victim, villain or both, and if she’s ever deliberately cruel. At the beginning when she first comes to visit her sister Stella and her sister’s husband Stanley she starts off by telling them all these lies about why she’s visiting and why she left her job. This is the starting point of her breakdown, and this is where it all begins. She doesn’t like dealing with reality, so she creates her own. Like instead of telling Stella the real reason why she’s visiting them and what happened in her job she tells Stella that she’s come to visit them as she’s taking a leave of absence at her job, when really she was told to leave and was fired from her job.…show more content… Throughout the play she’s very dramatic in how she says things and how she doesn’t want to be in the light. She has to have the lights dimmed or she won’t go in that room or to that place. The reason for her doing that is she doesn’t want people to see how old she is but also I think for her the light is a way for people to see the real her, and to know the truth about all the lies she’s told. As she’s visiting them, Stanley seems to know there’s something not right with her stories which in the end he says he knew all along and that she couldn’t fool him. “I’ve been on to you from the start. Not once did you pull any wool over this boy’s
