ENGL 101W Chapter Screetcar Named Desire: SNDshapes
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Innocence: allan"s oval: oval is an elegant shape that is not as perfect as a circle, yet pleasing. death constantly haunts her. He is ambiguous in his behaviour due to his sexual orientation, and his affair with another man proves that he is not as innocent as blanche thought him to be. He is a ghost in blanche"s life and his in the 1940s, it nevertheless constitutes allan"s purity as it is his truth. The colour grey is also a representation of blanche being tainted as allan"s suicide marks the end of blanche"s sexual and allan"s relationship and also, allan was a homosexual. The breaks symbolize the barriers: faded line: after allan"s death, blanche suffers mental breakdowns when allan is mentioned and between their relationship. Blanche never truly reaches allan, and when she discovered his affair, she could not accept it. Blanche never connected with the true allan. the varsouvania polka plays in the background.
