What happens between Blanche and Stanley at the end of Scene Ten? What results of this are evident in Scene Eleven? Why has Blanch gone mad? Where is she being sent? Why has Stella decided to send Blanche there? Has Stanley and Stella's marriage changed?
At the end of Scene Ten, Stanley and Blanche have another confrontation, this confrontation has a much different outcome this time. Stanley rapes Blanche at the end of Scene Ten. Results of the rape are evident in how Stella is packing Blanche's belongings, how Blanche yet again is in the bath and bathing herself, checking to make sure the men are in the room playing poker. Blanche has gone mad because of the constant fear of Stanley Kowalski, the environment she has been trapped in, the fading age, the fading beauty, the hardship of life, the prostitution secret, the young boy that she feels that she killed, the loss of Belle Reve, the constant death she had to witness, the lack of protection and money she has. A lot of factors have led to Blanche's madness. She was a bomb waiting to explode. She is being sent to an insane asylum because Stella took Stanley's side over the rape rather than Blanche's and she thinks that it will be the best for her family and Blanche herself. I think that Stella and Stanley's relationship has changed because Stella was a pawn for both Stanley and Blanche. Being a pawn in both of the relationships caused stress between Stella and Stanley, so I don't think that their relationship will ever be the same.
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