Blanche's downfall
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- Created on: 24-11-17 14:50
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- Blanche's downfall
- Stanley
- We've had this date with each other from the beginning" (97)
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You left nothing here but spilt talcum and old empty perfume bottles--unless it's the paper
lantern you want to take with you.
- eizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the light bulb (105)
- Stella
- Old South
- Her downfall can be predicted in advance as Blanche is a representation of the old South
- Set in the 1940s
- Mitch
- "you done this, all o' your Goddamn interfering with things you-" (106)
- Stanley
- We've had this date with each other from the beginning" (97)
-
You left nothing here but spilt talcum and old empty perfume bottles--unless it's the paper
lantern you want to take with you.
- eizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the light bulb (105)
- Stanley
- Destroying her image and exposing her
- Page 86
- "he tears the paper lantern off the bulb"
- "I don't want realism." "I'll tell you what I want. Magic!"
- "you done this, all o' your Goddamn interfering with things you-" (106)
- The Flamingo
- Flamingo? No! Tarantula was the name of it! I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms!
- "Yes, a big spider! That's where I brought my victims.[She pours herself another drink]"
- I think it was panic, just panic, that drove me from one to another, hunting for some protection--
- Plastic theatre
- Varsouvianna
- Blanche's husband
- The "Varsouviana" is filtered into a weird distortion, accompanied by the cries and noises of the jungle.
- Varsouvianna
- Poetic realism
- "I shall die of eating an unwashed grape"
- Stanley
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