Interior & Exterior Appearances in A Streetcar Named Desire
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- Interior & Exterior Appearance in A Streetcar Named Desire
- 'Blue Piano' frequently plays outside evokes tension and emotion within the apartment.
- Blanche
- The split between her fantasy world and reality becomes sharper and clearer to every character in the play except Blanche, for whom the interior and exterior worlds become increasingly blurred.
- Tries to keep up appearances in all aspects of her life - She surrounds herself in silks and rhinestones and her fantasies of Shep's yacht to hold her upper class appearance.
- Blanche sings 'paper moon' in the bath offstage while onstage, Stanley reveals to Stella Blanche's history
- Calls Stanley a 'polack' and makes snide comments about the apartment to maintain her sense of social superiority.
- The audience see's both inside and outside of the apartment which emphasizes the tense relationship between what is on the outside and what is in the inside throughout the play.
- Also symbolizes what goes on within the mind and what occurs in real life.
- Stella
- Is more open when Stanley is not around.
- p.67 - "The Polka stops abruptly."
- p. 6 - "Blanche: ... I thought you would never come back to this horrible place..."
- p. 19 - "He hurls the furs to the daybed. Then he jerks open a small drawer in the trunk and pulls up a fistful of costume jewelry."
- p. 6 - "Blanche: ... I thought you would never come back to this horrible place..."
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