Streetcar Themes

Death

Death at Belle Reve

• Blanche will always remember nursing the elderly at Belle Reve
• Makes Stella & Mitch listen in gruesome detail
• Woman who's body was so swollen it didnt fit in a coffin 'burned like rubbish' (s.1,p.12)
• 'blood stained pillow slips' (s.9,p.88) which Blanche had to change
• Blanche dreams of being buried 'at sea sewn up…