Relationships are doomed to fail

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  • Created on: 22-11-17 07:36
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  • Relationships
    • Blanche's relationships
      • Blanche and Mitch
        • Sees mitch as an opportunity to be supported
        • Only together out of mutual need for support
          • You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be—you and me, Blanche?”
        • Not compatible
          • Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures. Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear
            • Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures. Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear Juxtaposition of Blanche and Mitch's actions show how wrong they are for each other
      • Blanche and Stanley
        • "We've had this date with each other from the beginning"
        • The first time I laid eyes on him I thought to myself, that man is my executioner! That man will destroy me
      • Blanche and Stella
        • Stella chooses Stanley over Blanche once again.
          • She has done this before so we can foreshadow the fact that she will do it again, especially since she's pregnant
      • For blanche, every relationship is doomed to fail because she represents death
        • They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at — Elysian Fields!
    • Typical New Orleans romances
      • Steve and Eunice
      • Stella and stanley
        • "I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley"
        • "It makes me so mad when he does that in front of people"
        • "I found out you'd been insane enough to come back in here"
        • Blanche is disgusted that Stanley and Stella's sexual attraction to each other is what keeps them together.
          • What you are talking about is brutal desire--just--Desire!--the name of that rattle-trap streetcar
    • Friendships
      • Stanley and Mitch
      • Stella and Eunice
    • Relationships with people who've died
      • Mitch and his girlfriend
      • Blanche and her husband
        • Blanche's relationships
          • Blanche and Mitch
            • Sees mitch as an opportunity to be supported
            • Only together out of mutual need for support
              • You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be—you and me, Blanche?”
            • Not compatible
              • Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures. Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear
                • Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures. Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear Juxtaposition of Blanche and Mitch's actions show how wrong they are for each other
          • Blanche and Stanley
            • "We've had this date with each other from the beginning"
            • The first time I laid eyes on him I thought to myself, that man is my executioner! That man will destroy me
          • Blanche and Stella
            • Stella chooses Stanley over Blanche once again.
              • She has done this before so we can foreshadow the fact that she will do it again, especially since she's pregnant
          • For blanche, every relationship is doomed to fail because she represents death
            • They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at — Elysian Fields!

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