Blanche DuBois

Blanche is Stella's sister, a former schoolteacher, desperate for money, plans to contact Shep Huntleigh for help. Blanche reveals she is a summer schoolteacher with low pay, came to New Orleans for financial reasons, and recounts a traumatic past marriage that ended in a suicide at Moon Lake Casino. Rumors about her past in Laurel and Flamingo hotel, expelled from high school after scandal with a 17‑year‑old boy, and she will be forced to leave on a bus Tuesday. Attempts to call Mitch, leaves a message, receives a Greyhound ticket to Laurel Confesses numerous affairs after Allan’s death, reveals she lied about her reputation, and briefly proposes marriage to Mitch before collapsing in panic. Blanche becomes increasingly drunken, imagines a telegram from Shep Huntleigh, attempts desperate phone calls, and is violently assaulted by Stanley. Blanche is taken to a mental institution and speaks of dependence on strangers