Idealists love life, look forward to changing the world, have dreams and have courage.
Blanche is just a visionary who lives in his own past. The suicide of the 17-year-old may be the root cause of her fragility, but her own character has also contributed to her depraved and corrupt reputation.
Feeling hurt, but this does not mean that she can give up on herself. A person with self-esteem and self-love should not use other people's feelings to heal her injuries. After the teenager died, she needed to keep dating strangers to get rid of the pain in her heart-this is now a typical search for substitutes and friends. As a teacher, Blanche, since he can bravely choose to fall in love with his students, he must consider the consequences instead of being so helpless and self-satisfied.
In contrast, I prefer Stanley played by Marlon Brando. He is lively, enthusiastic, vivid, vulgar but true. If he doesn't have the demeanor of a gentleman, on the one hand it is caused by the family environment, and on the other hand, it is the disgust that Blanche said coldly and put arrows behind his back. He loves his wife deeply, and although he flirted with Blanche a few times, this is the inherent habit of a vulgar soldier. Although Stella has been protecting her sister, she likes Stanley's straightforward and unpretentious style.
Blanche's inconspicuousness and pretense also contributed to her tragedy. It is true that she retains the delicacy and elegance of a big family, but these do not prevent her from telling the truth; it does not prevent her from treating people sincerely and talking about the past frankly. She pretends to Mickey, or because she cares too much about Mickey, she hopes to marry him, but the illusion she created gives Mickey a big longing, longing that she is an innocent and innocent old girl. Once a man suffers such a deception, how can he be in the mood to analyze the cause of a woman's neurasthenia! So Mickey’s reaction is also very legitimate. After all, he doesn’t know much about Blanche, and what she understands is also the side she presents. When he finds that Blanche is completely another person, how can he continue to be right? What about her love!
Blanche has always been pretending to Stanley, and she has a pride and inferiority mentality to him. She wanted to maintain her image as a heartthrob eldest lady, so much so that in the end she still said that a millionaire would pick her up on a cruise in the Caribbean. Blanche always hoped to exchange lie for respect or love, but never thought that one day the lie would be exposed. It is also because there are so many lies that she finally doesn't know which ones are false and which ones are true. She feels very pitiful, and many people want to harm her, but she first talked about Stanley's bad things, but she said to Stanley first, "It seems that my sister does not know you as I understand you." She is indeed ruining this home, and still expecting Stanley to treat her well?
In my opinion, women who used to be romantic can choose two paths, one, and continue to be romantic; secondly, be good but don't deny the past. The former can live glamorously and luxuriously with a little emptiness, while the latter can live poorly but with a clear conscience. Blanche didn't choose any of them. She chose to avoid the past, conceal the truth, and deceive herself. It can be said that her tragedy was caused by her actions.
Of course, from a more macro perspective, the attitude and style of women in that era were also affected by the general environment.
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