While Stanley is talking to Stella about Blanche, Blanche is in the bathroom and the audience can hear her singing. What is the significance of her song?? Is it, too, a description of Blanche?? Does it present one side of Blanche that Stanley (and Mitch) cannot understand?
The significance of her song is the song centers around this make-believe world. This is Blanche and all she exists in. She wants to live in a world that is magic to escape reality and the cruelness of the real world. The real world has destroyed her; the funerals, the loss of Bele Reve, the loss of her young husband, being fired from her job, resorting to prostitution, the real world for Blanch Dubois has been nothing but hardship and struggles. She does and makes her life a dream and make believe, like making "enchantment", talking to Shep Hutleigh, and putting on her expensive jewelry and clothes. In a way I don't think that Stanley and Mitch could ever understand why Blanche makes her world a make-believe world and tries to disregard reality for fantasy because they haven't gone through the experiences she has and experiences tend to shape people and who they become.
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