So here’s what i have in terms of our conclusion through our analysis. Please edit it, because i know some things need to be changed and then i’ll post our final product! thanks ya’ll!
Having completed our portions of analysis, dramatic action and character, we have come to the conclusion that this play is about the acceptance of reality. We go on a journey with the main characters throughout the play in which every one of them must accept reality to live in harmony. Up until Stanley and Mitch force Blanche to really look at reality, she has been living a dream like life. Her home is called Belle Reve (beautiful dream) and in scene nine she blatantly states: "I don't want realism, I want magic!" Which implies that she is being taken away from the magical life she desires to live. We see a battle inside Blanche throughout the whole production between a realistic life and a dream, but ultimately in the end when she agrees to leave the house with the gentlemen doctor, she is accepting her reality; maybe not consciously, but by leaving she is accepting her future.
The same type of journey is seen with Stella and Mitch as well. Mitch has this ultimate desire to not live alone, he is in need of a companion, but after scene nine we see a transformation in Mitch when he realizes that not just anyone can fill that desire (Blanche). He could marry her, she in no way stops him from moving in that direction but we see him come to terms with reality when he says "I don't think I want to marry you any more" to Blanche. He has let all of her foolishness and lies slide by until he realizes that he could not live with someone like her and accepts his reality that he must continue to live alone.
Stella is another example of acceptance. She spends the whole play trying to be a mediator between Blanche and Stanley when it is only making her unhappier. For her life to return to something bearable either Stanley or Blanche must leave, but because she loves Stanley so much, Blanche is the one who is forced to go. Stella, like Blanche, roughly accepts this reality in the last scene of the play. Stella struggles with it, but in the end she does not stop it from occurring. She must cleanse herself of Blanche so her and Stanley can go back to being normal and live the marriage they had been living until Blanche showed up.
Stanley serves as a realistic ground throughout the play because he does not let Blanche put anything in front of his eyes. He sees through everything she has said and does and in a sense continually forces the play back down to reality. When he comes in it is all business. There is no dream, there is no reason to appeal to both parties, life is what it is and Stanley knows that living in a dream is not going to change reality. He is the most continually realistic character throughout the play and sends the driving force of realism through his actions and desires.
All of the dramatic action leads up to these characters accepting reality and tossing out a life of dreams. It is their resistance from reality that drives the play, but their acceptance of reality that resolves it.