The
biggest desire in the play is Blanche's. She desires more than anything else to be accepted,
find a place in the world, be loved, be cherished, and be cared for. Yet she is destined never
to find it, as she's much too delicate and psychologically fragile, and that's before she even
arrives to stay with Stanley and Stella. Subsequent events simply make matters worse, much
worse. Her desire is so strongdesperate might be a better wordthat she constantly finds herself
involved with men who aren't right for her, for one reason or another. It looks for a brief
moment as if Mitch might finally be the man for her, but once he finds out about her sordid
past, he treats her as badly as all other men in her life ever have.
Stanley
desires to be lord and master of his own home, to dominate and control all those around him.
That's why he perceives Blanche as such a threat; she comes into his life and disrupts its
natural rhythms. Now it's Blanche who's the center of attention, not him,...
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