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Falsehood in A Street Car Named Desire Throughout life, people use false information to either hide or protect other information for their own benefit or maybe someone else’s. They try to hide the present, future and usually the past. Using these has become a way of life for some people and most of what they are talking about has falseness to it. In Tennessee William’s book A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanch Dubois uses lies, fantasies and symbolic actions to escape the harsh reality of her life. In the play, Blanch uses fantasies to hide the bitter reality of her life. One of Blanch’s fantasies includes her dreaming of Shep Huntly and that he will come and take her away from her hardships in life. An example of this is when she says openly that if Shep came to take her away that she would leave with him. When people fantasize seldom, it is thought of as normal, but when someone fantasizes over a person that they want back excessively, then there is a problem. Just as Blanch always dreams that Mitch actually wants to come back and that he wants to take her back when that is not true. Another one of Blanch’s fantas