suspected rape scene in which one of their arguments ends with Stanley leading Blanche to the bed. Branching from that, Stella has an inner conflict because she does not know whether to side with her husband or her sister in each situation. Blanche and Mitch have a conflict because their original plans of getting married are destroyed when Stanley reveals her past.There are many external events alluded to through the text. It is hinted that the start of Blanches insanity was when she found out that her husband was a homosexual. Stella leaves Belle Reve, and Blanche is stuck to take care of their dying kin, while losing their family home. Before Blanche arrives in New Orleans, she is fired from her teaching job because the entire town knows of her as a whore. This is also what ruins her in New Orleans because the manager at Stanleys job has passed through the hotel she used to live in. The internal events of the play begin with Blanches arrival. Immediately, Stanley assumes that Blanche sold Belle Reve for money, and believes that a share of it belongs to him. In an argument Stanley hits Stella, and Blanche uses it as an excuse to lure Stella away. Mitch and Blanche begin dating, and decide that they will wed. When Stanley finds this out he informs Mitch as a friend of Blanches past, and breaks up the engagement. Stella goes to the hospital to have her baby, and while she is there Stanley and Blanche have a fight, which ends with sexual relations. After Stella returns from the hospital, a nurse and a doctor come to take Blanche away. Mitch begins to cry, showing that he really did love her. Reversals are common in this play. Mitch goes from wanting to marry Blanche, to calling the wedding off. Stanley goes from hating Blanche to fooling around with her, which could be interpreted as an act of violence or fulfillment of a hidden desire. Stella engages in a reversal from trusting her sister to realizing that she has lost it a...
