T D 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bourgeoisie, Norm (Social), Tennessee Williams
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Street car named desire: based on streetcar in new orleans, desire cemetery elysian fields. Belle reve: beautiful dream, fall from grace, deterioration. Flores: desire and death, fresh as a daisy- one picked a few days ago. It is easy to image problems of poverty: cannot always image problems of people in upper classes, problems also arise when you were in one class and now you are in another. Blanche results to prostitution to sustain herself financially. But she also cannot adjust to stella and stanley. Domestic and sexual violence: domestic violence is wrapped up in mental health. Shot himself because blanche outed him in front of everyone at the ball. She told him that she knew he liked men in a public setting. Allen couldn"t handle the pressure and the stigma: shows that allen and blanche lived in a rigid society that was so strict that allen did not feel like he could survive.
