In these chapters, Blanche reveals more details about her first marriage. She married at the young age of sixteen, and she was madly in love with her husband. Then, one day, she came home to find her husband in bed with a much older man. Apparently the two had been friends for a very long time. Blanche tried to pretend nothing happened, and all three of them went out to a casino that night. After a couple of drinks, Blanche approached her husband and said how she felt about the situation and how disgusted she was. The boy ran out of the casino and shot himself in the head. Finding this out about Blanche’s past was a little shocking at first; however, it always seemed like Blanche was hiding something. She was very insecure about the love letters she had from her husband and wouldn’t even let Stanley look at them. This incident that Blanche witnessed could also be an indicator of why she was on a leave of absence because earlier in the novel, she admitted “It would be nice to keep you, but I’ve got to be good and keep my hands off children.” (pg. 84) She saw the older man in bed with her young husband, so she could have been doing just that with her students.
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