er rich friends will come and swap her away. In reality Blancheis a fake, asw are all of her clothes and jewels. She is escaping a badreputation in Laurel, where no one wants anything to do with her. Shehas gottten involved with one of her students and for that has beenfired. Therefore she has lost the family estate, but still blames hersister for not being there with her, after most of their family passedaway. Blanche is escaping the truth. Blanches denials of the truth andher pretense of being someone she is not cost her the only chance shehad to be happy....
