The play A Streetcar Named Desire takes place in New Orleans, following Stanley, his wife Stella, and his sister-in-law, Blanche. While several conflict points appear throughout the story, they all seemed to revolve around the character Blanche.
This character on the basic level is very selfish. Her drive is to get what she wants, which, often times, is attention from her male counterparts. Her excuse for this, as she states in the play, is her way of handling the grief of losing her first partner. This is something Stanley brings up to Stella and Mitch, Blanche’s latest goal, in order to show who Blanche is as a person.
In addition to this attention seeking, she also seems to seek positive popularity and social status. She wears fancy clothes and perfume, and holds herself to a higher degree. Even the way she talks implies that she feels superior to others. As a part of this, she tends to spread several webs of lies that differ between the people she’s around. This, of course, is part of the reason why Stanley, and later Mitch, are able to call her out on why she’s come to visit New Orleans.
Blanche is the conflict point throughout the entire story, through these various means. In the end, it was what ruined her and her credibility.