[She sobs with inhuman abandon. There is something luxurious in her complete surrender to crying now that her sister is gone.]
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 11. Stella breaks down in deep sobs as Blanche is taken away by the Doctor and the Matron to a mental hospital. The stage directions suggest Stella’s guilty feelings over her actions after her sister said she was sexually assaulted by Stanley. Rather than believe Blanche, Stella chose to stay with her lying rapist husband.