<Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> Jessie (cousin, deceased) a nephew a niece </Td> </Tr> <P> Blanche DuBois (married name Grey) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize - winning play A Streetcar Named Desire . The character was written for Tallulah Bankhead . </P> <P> Blanche DuBois arrives, penniless, in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brother - in - law Stanley Kowalski . A former schoolteacher from a wealthy family, she has been evicted from her family home, "Belle Reve", after the deaths of several family members wiped out her and Stella's inheritance . It is also later revealed that, years earlier, her husband, Allan Grey, committed suicide after she caught him having sex with another man . She had a series of meaningless affairs to numb her grief, and was soon thrown out of her hometown of Laurel, Mississippi, as a "woman of loose morals" after sleeping with one of her high school English students . </P> <P> Behind her veneer of social snobbery and sexual propriety, Blanche is deeply insecure, an aging Southern belle who lives in a state of perpetual panic about her fading beauty . Her manner is dainty and frail, and she sports a wardrobe of showy but cheap evening clothes, as indicated in the stage directions for Scene 10: "She had decked herself out in a somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown and a pair of scuffed silver slippers with brilliants set in their heels ." </P>

Where is blanche from in streetcar named desire