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Appearance and Reality in A Streetcar Named Desire

the beginning, the characters in the play can only see the fatade that Blanche has created. Even the always-level-headed and realistic Stanley, mistakes her rhinestone tiara for "diamonds! A crown for an empress!", and a lamT dress for "solid gold" (Williams 35-36). Blanche is even able to seduce Mitch with her dishonesty. Williams uses images of light and shadow in this respect. When Mitch removes the paper shade from the bare bulb, and shines the light in Blanche's face, he finds that she is "older than what [he] thought", establishing the very image of light as being representative of reality in the play (Williams 117). It is when this light is shone into Blanche's face that she begins her gradual dissent beyond minor delusion and into insanity. The audience's perception of Blanche as representative of appearance, in opposition to Stanley's reality, is solidified with the line "I don't w

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