1. The males abuse females but reconcile at the end: seems to suggest that male dominance is the nature of human beings, because males are physically and socially stronger. Women do not have the power to fight against this, and all they can do is to accept it and deal with it. It is the nature of human beings.2. Female dependence on men: All the females, especially Blanche, cannot survive without depending on males. Males are much more stronger than females in the society. This goes back to the primitive state of human life, in which males were hunting and females stayed in the house.3. Blanche’s contradictions: despite all her talks about how she worships art and music, Blanche cannot resist her desire for alcohol and young men. This seems to suggest the dominance and inevitability of desire within human beings.4. Blanche is not looked as a marriageable subject because of her past: seems to suggest that sexual appeal is the only value that women have.5. Blanche’s covering the light: seems to suggest that there is something to hide about human beings. This can be the decaying of her physical beauty or her dark past. Covering the light allows her to ignore and escape from reality.
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Stella obviously depends on Stanley as the only man in her life. But Blanche doesn’t have any one man to depend on, which eventually leads her to ruin. Is this because Blanche tried to control her men, instead of taking the “natural” order take its course? Blanche did not accept male dominance, but being female, she needed someone to depend upon, which led to an inherent contradiction in her life and finally to her downfall.