Macabre events - Blanche's Husband's suicide
Supernatural elements - Past events haunting
Deranged and damaged characters - Blanche
Belle Reve means beautiful dreams - it is ironic why?
- It is introduced as being lost
- It is never a reality in the play
Blanche -
- Not down to earth
- Lives in a dream
- Racist
- Talks in an archaic, out dated way
- Way she likes to be treated
Stanley
- He is straight talking
- Harsh
- Masculine
- Uses colloquial language
What they wear is important
Blanche - white clothes, neat, fine, vulnerable, easily destroyed
Stanley - Rough, hard wearing clothes
Blanche's loss of mentality reflects loss of the old America
Rape - death of culture
- Europeans colonised America in 1500-1600 - french name from this time - landowning
- Kowalski, polish - immigrant
Symbols - death of old America
- Blanche's "students no longer interested"
- Stanley throws radio playing classical music out of the window
Blanche's health
- Lost Belle Reve through excess
- Old family corrupt - gambling, slavery, exploitation
Just after war in 1945 - civil war
No help from other classes to save belle reve
Past catching up with her
Family buried like rubbish
Elysian fields - joke to Blanche
Events are symbolic
Street car named desire goes to cemeteries - progression of the play
- Stanley lively, loud
- Multicultural, less reserved
- Blanche doesn't fit in
- Blanche escapes into imaginary world
- Stanley destroys it by calling it all lies
- Handing over of papers
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