There is
a kind of tragicto Blanche's last words, "Whoever you are I have always depended on the
kindness of strangers." She is at this point in the play being escorted out of Stella and
Stanley's apartment by a doctor, who has come to take her to a psychiatric institution. The fact
that she doesn't know who the doctor is here ("Whoever you are") points to how
psychologically disorientated she is by the end of the play. And, tragically, she has been
reduced to this condition in large part because strangers have not been kind to her. Mitch told
her, "You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother," when he found out
about how many men she had slept with. Stanley violated her when he raped her offstage. Even her
own sister has betrayed her.
Blanche's final words are also, however,
grounded in truth. Earlier in the play Blanche told Mitch that she "had many intimacies
with strangers. After the death of Allanintimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill
my...
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