Blanche Dubois Victim

Blanche DuBois is one of the central characters in Tennessee Williams’: “A Streetcar Named Desire”. She is the sister of Stella Kowalski, she is in her thirties and works as a school English teacher. Blanche can be described as many things; a “slut”, because of her relations with soldiers and numerous men in a hotel, a “predator”, because of her affair with a young school boy. However, a “victim” because of her gender would not be one that many would first think of or even agree with.
To begin this case of whether she is a victim due to her gender, we firstly have to analyse what the statement even means. The google definition of a victim is; ‘a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.’