She’s not going back to teach school! In fact I am willing to bet you that she never had no idea of returning to Laurel! She didn’t resign temporarily from the high school because of her nerves! No, siree, Bob! She didn’t. They locked her out of that high school before the spring term ended – and I hate to tell you the reason that step was taken! A seventeen-year-old boy – she’d gotten mixed up with!
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 7. Stanley tells Stella about Blanche’s "Lie Number Two." He reveals that Blanche lost her teaching job after becoming romantically involved with one of her students, a seventeen year old boy. But Blanche told the Kowalskis the fiction that she was on a leave of absence from her job due to exhaustion and nerves.