- postwar setting 1947 (doesn't dwell on war - atypical)
- Melting pot of New Orleans - vibrant & mulit-cultural
- Patriachial society - Blanche is reliant upon men (and when she cannot rely upon them, she descends into madness)
- Lack of understanding about mental health - Blanche will undoubtably suffer poor treatment
- Old V New America (Blanche is Old America - isolated in New Orleans)
- Williams' sister had a lobotomy & was institutionalised
- Williams suffered from depression/alcoholism - was a homosexual
- America cinema at the height of its popularity - audiences influenced by the movies
- Audience of 1947 cheered when Blanche was *****
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