Everett's Second Entry on A Streetcar Named Desire

I'm writing my 2nd entry on the novel A Streetcar Named Desire after finishing Scene 6, page 97. I thought this was a good place to stop and write because something very significant just took place. I've found some important details on Blanche and her history. After her date with Mitch at an Amusement park they arrive home at 2AM to an empty house. Blanche's confusing signals and questions to Mitch led to the conversation of their loved ones. Mitch spoke about his ill mother who's dying wish is for her son to settle down with a woman. Blanche in return, for the first time in the book, speaks in detail of her dead husband. We learn that she fell deeply in love with him at the age of 16 and ran away to get married. But one day she found him in a room alone with an old friend of his. It isn't said what exactly happened but I think we can come to the conclusion that the two men had secret intimate feelings towards eachother and she had finally found out. Blanche's disgusted reaction to what she witnessed led her husband to kill himself in the middle of the street after she expressed her feelings to him. Blanche says that even now she still suffers much guilt about the disaster and Mitch tries to comfort her and in that ask her to possibly marry him. The scene closes with her crying in his arms in the dark house alone.

After finding this out about Blanche I can understand and even sympathize with the things she does. She seems impulsive and stubborn and very unhappy. She seems permiscuous as well. Stanley brings up a friend of his who claims to have been intimate with Blanche in a town called Laurel. Blanche also teases and kisses the paper boy who she had never met before in her life. She had flirted with Stanley and also led Mitch. Her behavior may have something to do with depression are severe feelings she has regarding to the loss of her husband. Now that I understand Blanche more than before I predict that she will tell Mitch that she does want to marry him. She will devote herself to him and eventually dissapear like she intends to. Mitch will be heartbroken and alone. He says he's never met a girl like her and has taken a strong liking to her.

In the beginning of scene 5 neigbors Steve and wife Eunice are fighting similarly to how Stanley and Stella had. They yell and their is a lot of banging but soon after they seem perfectly fine again. This tells us something about the area that this book takes place in and how times may possibly be. Males are very dominant over their wives and abuse seems fairly common in families.

I also found another mention of a streetcar named Desire in scene 5, page 83. After their date, Blanche asks Mitch how he plans on getting home from her house.

Mitch: I'll walk to Bourbon and catch an owl-car.
Blanche (laughing grimly): Is that streetcar named Desire still grinding along the tracks at this hour?

Mitch doesn't answer the question but changes the subject to how their date went. I'm now changing my guess on the streetcar. I don't think it was sarcasm but an actual means of transportation. This may be the title because of the significance of the area to how the book plays out. The streetcar is maybe a mjor landmark to the setting.