Her inability to give Stella's environment a good compliment shows how in illusion she tries to live a wealthy life when at the moment, she basically has no wealth. Blanche brought along a trunk which contained costume jewelry . In appearance the jewelry portrays her as a wealthy individual but in reality the jewelry had no significant value.
This topic interests me in the sense it relates to our everyday lives as humans. It exposes and elaborates more on how things we see is not really how they look. It in a way eposes the hypocrisy that as humans we tend to live with