e illusion of the genteel Southern lady, something she was raised to be but is not. Indeed, that ideal is something that probably does not really exist at all but that has served for generations as an image. Again and again, Blanche argues against Stella's view of the world, and Blanche seems not to understand that Stella is happy in her married life. Stella tries to tell her sister how she feels and says after one poker night: "I said I'm not in anything that I have a desire to get out of" (Williams 65). Blanche lives by illusion, though, and so can never admit to herself what her own life has been like any more than she c
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