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In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois is modernist themes wrapped up in the pretty bow of a southern belle. Her flawed interior landscape and interpretation of reality bring out major questions about hope, love, meaning, and responsibility. Also, her perception of how society should be and her role in functional society are two completely different pictures. After her husband commits suicide Blanche is left without hope, as she says her light was never turned on again. She felt personally responsible for not being able to help him, which was why she dealt with it by being increasingly “friendly” to numerous male acquaintances. That behavior is the opposite of how she feels society is supposed to function. She is constantly chastising Stella for how common and bestial Stanley is. She is appalled by the conditions she finds Stella living in, despite that the ones she was living in before were more deplorable. Basically, Blanche’s mental breakdown makes her the perfect message of modernism: hopeless and unable to connect with those around her due to misinterpretations of culture. In her monologue about her prior marriage you see her mentally deteriorate as she blames herself for the death of Allen:

“I didn’t find out anything till after our marriage when we’d run away and come back and all I knew was I’d failed him in some mysterious way and wasn’t able to give the help he needed but couldn’t speak of! He was in the quicksands and clutching at me-but I wasn’t holding him out, I was slipping in with him! I loved him unendurably but without being able to help him or help myself.”(354)

This scene demonstrates how she could not communicate. She loved this boy but didn’t realize the actual situation until after it was spelled out for her. She knew he needed help, but she discovered he was gay by walking in on him with another man. Even after finding out, she can’t talk to him about until she is drunk and says hysterically, while dancing, “I saw! I know! You disgust me…”(355).  In regards to Stella and Stanley, her communication is more selective. She informs them of how she lost Belle Reve, but she chooses to withhold other personal details of her life. Although that makes her an unreliable character, it also serves to illustrate a more realistic aspect of her character. By nature, humans try to impress other especially those closest to us, so it makes sense that Blanche wouldn’t tell her sister she’s been rather promiscuous. She justifies this behavior, as well as not telling Mitch her true age with:

“I don’t want realism. I want magic! … I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!” (385)

Which also goes back to Blanche’s interpretation of how society and people should be versus the reality of the situation.  She’ll do nearly anything to embrace that society and escape reality, which was why when the Psychiatrist behaves like a gentleman she is pleased to go with him. In the end Blanche’s escape from hopelessness is in her own delusions, especially after Stanley rapes her and her own sister doesn’t believe her. The loss of hope seems always ends with a final ending.