Whoever you are – I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 11. Blanche depends on strangers to fill the void she has felt in her life ever since her husband committed suicide. She acknowledges this in her final words in the play, spoken to the Doctor. There is a double irony in what she tells him. For sadly the Doctor is not the gallant Shep Huntleigh she was hoping would come to rescue her. Far from being her rescuer, the Doctor is about to take her to a mental asylum. Also the strangers in her life have been kind to her only in exchange for sex, or they have abused and abandoned her. This shows how delusional and detached from reality Blanche is and is now completely immersed in her fantasy world.