ept the fact that she is aging and that things aren't turning out exactly to plan. It would no doubt be easier for Blanche to confront reality and take a serious look at the direction that her life is heading. But I believe that it would greatly benefit her in the long run. Also I think in the long run it would greatly benefit Stella to confront reality and have a serious think about her relationship with Stanley. Male domination is one of the major themes of the book and in a way it too relates to the way in which the characters are to some extent living an unreal existence. In the time that the play was written obviously different values were upheld relating to women's rights and male domination. All the same however Stanley's actions cannot be justified. Blanche's judgement of Stanley in the first scene "He is like an animal" proves to be quite an accurate description. Stanley's actions prove only to push Blanche further and further into her illusional world in which she is already firmly planted. Throughout the play the theme of truth versus lies is quite dominant. The play leaves the reader wondering how the lives of the main characters would differ if they chose to tell the truth and believe the truth rather than tell and accept lies. Blanche to some degree is a compulsive liar, driven by her desire to be viewed as a young upper-class lady she tells lie after lie after lie. While these lies appear to no more than white lies when you add up each lie she tells you start to see that not only is she telling lies but she is living a lie. The image which she tries to project is nothing more than fake. What she appears not to realize it is clear that by projecting this image she is only digging a hole for herself which in the end turned out to be way to deep to get her way out of. As we can see through studying the major themes of the play and looking at their relation to the characters we can see that not all but some of the characte...
