
In the play "A Streetcar Named Desire," Blanche and Mitch portray similar and different desires. Blanche in the one hand desires attention, protection, and stability. Blanche was raised in a society were middle class women were expected to portray delicacy, beauty, and attraction to others and Blanche was no exception to this. After loosing her husband in a horrible way, Blanche started looking and desiring for what she once had in her matrimony; that magic and romanticism she feels the need to have again. She desires a magic relationship that would give her back the light that she lost after Allan's suicide. That is why when she meets Mitch, Stanley's friend, she hopes to find and live what she desires with him. Mitch is a lonely young man, he has no wife and lives with his sick mother, whom is about to die. Mitch's desire is to have a wife, a woman that would become part of his family before his mother dies. His desire is not a bad or uncommon one; he wants a life companion, something very common to desire during the 1950's, because a man needs a woman. When Mitch first sees Blanche he sees an opportunity. An opportunity of getting to know a single beautiful woman who could offer him what he most desires; a wife. Blanche sees that opportunity as well, the protection and stability she needs and she knows he could offer. However, Blanche's delusional character ruined the relationship they started. The first time they talked to each other she lied to him, and eventually her lies where revealed. She lied to him about her past and her age, but in her mind she did no wrong because she had a justification for everything she said or did. The magical life she was looking for blinded her from being honest and her delusions and desires led her to her own demise. When Stanley tells Mitch the whole story of Blanche's past, the relationship dissolves and his desire to have her disappears as well. At the end, Mitch still has a chance to fulfil his desire with a woman who he can categorize as clean and pure because Mitch just could not accept that Blanche was not as pure as he thought she was. Sadly Blanche will never get the chance to find the man who would protect her and love her, not because she does not want to, it is because her sister and Stanley stole that opportunity from her after they sent her to the mental asylum. Both their desires could have been satisfied by each other but destiny changed the out coming of their future.