The loss of her beloved husband keeps Blanche's mental state in the past, when she was 16, when She only cared about her appearance. That's why, at 30, she avoids bright lights that reveal her wrinkles. Blanche does not want to remember the troubles of her past and therefore tries to stay in a time when life was simpler. This is reinforced by the bright metaphor which illustrates how dark her life has become since Allan's suicide and how the light of love will never shine as brightly for Blanche again. Although, throughout the play, Blanche develops an interest in Mitch, a friend of Stanley, who reveals in the third scene that he also lost a lover once, although his lover was taken away by illness and not by suicide, and that he therefore always seeks the possibility of love, when Blanche seeks to find stability and security. Second, throughout Much Ado About Nothing, Don John, the bastard, is seen as an outsider. In Act 1, Scene 3, Don John and his companion Conrade discuss Don John's sadness. During this conversation, Don John says: "and it is better in my blood to be disdained by everything than to build a car to steal love from everyone.