Blanche DuBois arrives, penniless, in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brother - in - law Stanley Kowalski. A former schoolteacher from a wealthy family, she has been evicted from her family home, "Belle Reve '', after the deaths of several family members wiped out her and Stella 's inheritance. It is also later revealed that, years earlier, her husband, Allan Grey, committed suicide after she caught him having sex with another man. She had a series of meaningless affairs to numb her grief, and was soon thrown out of her hometown of Laurel, Mississippi, as a "woman of loose morals '' after sleeping with one of her high school English students.
where is blanche from in streetcar named desire
Laurel, Mississippi