Who Is Responsible For Blanche's Downfall

This play tells the feverish story of the pathetic mental and emotional demise of a determined, however fragile, repressed and delicate Southern lady (Blanche Dubois) born to a once-wealthy family. Her impoverished, tragic downfall in the squalid, ..
Huntleigh for help escaping from New Orleans; when Stella laughs at her,Blanche reveals that she is completely broke. Stanley walks in as Blanche ismaking fun of him and secretly overhears Blanche and Stella’s conversation.Later, he threatens Blanche with hints that he has heard rumors of herdisreputable past. She is visibly dismayed.While Blanche is alone in theapartment one evening, waiting for Mitch to pick her up for a date, a teenageboy comes by to collect money for the newspaper. Blanche
Also, she was fired from her job as a schoolteacherbecause the principal discovered that she was having an affair with a teenagestudent. Stella is horrified to learn that Stanley has told Mitch these storiesabout Blanche. The birthday dinner comes and goes, but Mitch never arrives. Stanleyindicates to Blanche that he is aware of her past. For a birthday present, hegives her a one-way bus ticket back to Laurel. Stanley’s cruelty so disturbsStella that it appears the Kowalski household is about to break up, but theonset of Stella’s labor prevents the imminent fight.Several hours later,Blanche, drunk, sits alone in the apartment. Mitch, also drunk, arrives andrepeats all he’s learned from Stanley. Eventually Blanche confesses that thestories are true, but she also reveals the need for human affection she feltafter her husband’s death. Mitch tells Blanche that he can never marry her,saying she isn’t fit to live in the same house as his mother. Having learnedthat Blanche is not the chaste lady she pretended to be, Mitch tries to havesex with Blanche, but she forces him to leave by yelling “Fire!” to attract theattention of passersby outside. Later, Stanley returns from the hospital to findBlanche even more drunk. She tells him