She is aware of the new life she is making, but continues to model it as attractive as she wants to imagine. .
Stella is another important character who doesn't live realistically. Instead, she resides in the world of hope. When Stella cries for her sister as she is hauled off at the end of play, she reveals that her frail fantasies have been smashed by Stanley's brutality. Stella calls her sister, "Blanche! Blanche! Blanche!"(11.142), as if she realizes that she actually does not want to allow her sister to be taken away. In her fantasy world, Stella wanted to be able to stay with her sister forever. However, deep down and in all seriousness, Stella already knows that a very troubled and abandoned person had finally disappeared. Blanche also forces herself to think that the doctor is a gentleman would rescue her from a rapist, a sister who is beginning to think Blanche has overstayed her welcome, and a life that she thinks will never accept her. In what is Blanche's final line in the play, she says, "Whoever you are-I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" (142). Irony is shown here in two ways. First of all, what she thinks was a gentleman who has come to swoop her away into a life of luxury and happiness, is actually a doctor and matron who have come to take her to a glorified prison to live out her days. Second of all, the strangers she comes across are not kind to her; they are only nice to her in exchange for sex. Blanche is unable to catch this and never thinks that she is being taken advantage of. Instead, she continues to concoct a world which sees her as the victim of many things. For instance, she thinks that Stanley absolutely loathes her and wants nothing more to do with her, while a case could be made that he shipped her off for the good of everyone involved. To summarize, the characters of Blanche and Stella support the claim that fantasy enables one to believe and hope for what they want rather than the likely occurrence.
