Blanche is sexual but will not have children - she has no future to offer it
"...thousands of papers, stretching back over hundreds of years effecting Belle Reve..."
- Since before the civil war
- A time of slavery and plantations
"epic fornications"
Resulted in two very different sisters
Stella presented as loyal and positive
When does the audience see blanche as a lost cause?
-When see passes cemeteries to Elysian fields - Alive but dead?
- She doesn't die
- She is always clutching at straws - latches onto the doctor - any hope of another chance
Property
- Stanley keeps going on about the Napoleonic code
- Eunice says "we own this place"
- Blanche doesn't own anything
- - Maybe why her body is so important to her
- - She bathes constanly
- Only thing Blanche knows how to do
- She believes that's what men want
- irresponsible - doesn't know how to be responsible
"Tragic nobility that redeems Blanche"
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