What does Blanche mean when she says, "I don't want realism. I want magic. I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be the truth."
Blanche revolves around make-believe and fantasy. That is who she is. What she means by that response is that she doesn't want to deal with the harsh realities of what the real world is. The hurt, the pain, the struggle, that makes the real world reality, destroy Blanche. She doesn't want that she wants "enchantment" and magic. Something that she can escape to; somewhere she is safe and away from harm. She gives people lies because if they were to hear the truth it would only hurt them, the same way it hurt Blanche. That is why she lies and only tells what people want to hear to them. She doesn't want the world to hurt them the way it hurt her.
How might someone explain Blanche's many "intimacies with strangers"?
It's out of loneliness, revenge, and protection. She needs to feel something in the arms of a man. She needs the protection and dominance of someone. She finds that in the men she lures to her room. Part of it is also revenge, she was hurt by a young man and men in general. She wants to lure them in with an attachment tat she once felt, but then hurt them the way that she was hurt. With Blanche's "intimacies with strangers" it is purely to feel something, to feel alive in a way, to feel wanted in a certain way.
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