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Society/Class (Sawoong) (Tone (S9-11 (I wont descend to the level of such…
Society/Class (Sawoong)
Tone
S1-6
"Please don't get up" "Nobody's going to get up, so don't be worried. -S3 P33.
As Blanche and Stella enter the house, guys are playing poker
There in the front of the cave, all
grunting like him, and swilling and gnawing and hulking! His poker night!--you call it--this party of apes! Somebody growls--some creature snatches at something--the fight is on! God! -S4 P55
"He is insufferably rude. Goes out of his way to offend me.That sort of commonness isn't necessary. You probably wonder why I don't move out. -S7 P73
-Man is of different societal treatment towards Blanche
"I don't know any refined enough for your taste" S8 P87, Stanley refuses to tell Blanche stories
What do you two think you are? A pair of queens? -S8 P89, Stanley opposes the women considering they have some alpha
S9-11
I wont descend to the level of such cheap accusations to answer them, even! S9 P98, consider's Mitch's questions cheap and lower class
But the rest of it-God! That pitch about your ideals being so old fashioned and all the malarky..... S9 P99, Mitch is triggered that she fakes her "old fashioned ideals"
Having great wealth sometimes makes people lonely! S10 P107, perhaps Blanche doesn't think being super high class is the best after all, as she realizes they are "lonely"
Setting
S3/4
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I take it for granted that you still have sufficient memory of Belle Reve to find this place and
these poker players impossible to live with. -S4 54
S1
"The section is poor but, unlike
corresponding sections in other American cities, it has a raffish charm." -S1 P1
"The white
woman is Eunice, who occupies the upstairs flat; the colored woman a neighbor" S1 P1
Stella comes out on the first floor landing, a gentle young woman, about twenty-five, and of a
background obviously quite different from her husband's. -S1 P2
We are going to be very bohemian. We are going to pretend that we are sitting in a little artists' cafe on the left bank in Paris! -S6 P71
I was common as dirt. You showed me the snapshot of the place with columns. S8 P93, Stanley describes to Stella their past
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S9-11
They're from the french market. That doesn't mean they're washed S11 P117, Blanche considers French market not of high caliber, maybe they aren't "high" enough to be washing their grapes
Those cathedral bells they're the only clean thing in the Quarter Well. I'm going now. S11 P117, Blanche considers Purity as a sense of high class(?)
Character
S 1-6
"This one seems - superior to the others" "Yes, he is". I thought he had a sort of sensitive look" S3 P34
-Blanche and Stella talk about Mitch
"You're French. We are French by extraction. Our first American Ancestors were French huguenots." S3 P39
-Mitch and Blanche have a word
"He smashed all the light bulbs with the heel of my slipper!" And you- you let him? Didn't run, didn't scream?" "I was sort of thrilled by it. " S4 P48
Blanche shocked at what someone like Stella did, or let happen
I don't understand you. I don't understand your indifference. Is this a Chinese philosophy you've cultivated? -S4 P49
-Blanche can't see why Stella puts up with Stanley
You can't have forgotten that much of our bringing up, Stella, that you just suppose
that any part of a gentleman's in his nature! Not one particle, no! Oh, if he was just--ordinary! -S4 P49
He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one!
There's even something--sub-human--something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! -S4 P53
Because of hard knocks my vanity's been given. What I mean is--he thinks I'm sort of--prim and
proper, you know! -S5 P60
S6-8
"That girl calls me common!" -S7 P78, Stanley conflict with Blanche as she considers him a commoner
You've got to realize that Blanche and I grew up under very different circumstances than you did. -S7 P78 -Different upbringing
Regarded as not just different but downright loco-nuts -S7 P81, Blanche is characterized as being nuts
S9-11
It was foolish of me to think that we could ever adapt ourselves to each other. Our ways of life are too different S10 P108, she realizes the societal differences between herself and Mitch
Our attitudes and our backgrounds are incompatible. We have to be realistic about such things. so farewell my friend! And let there be no hard feelings... S10 P108, Blanche considers their background unmatchable, as they are too different
I will die - with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. S11 P119, Blanche sees herself as high class, as she dies in the hands of a nice-looking, prestigious doctor
I think of myself as a very, very rich woman! S10, P112, Blanche describes herself as being high class
Symbols
S1/2
"Look at these feathers and furs that she come here to preen herself in!" -S2 P22
-Representing "higher" social class as a result of wealth and expensive clothing
"Where are your fox pieces, Stella? Bushy snow-white ones, no less! Where are your white fox-pieces?" -S2 P22
-Stella is "lower class" than Blanche, less wealth and thus power
I was given a membership to the New Orleans Athletic Club. When I started there, I was getting soft in the belly but now my belly is hard. It is so hard that a man can punch me in the belly and it don't hurt me. Punch me! -S6 P71, Mitch boasts about his athletic membership "superiority" over other men. Club membership- symbol of being alpha?
She is daintily dressed in
a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district. -S1 P2 -Talking about Blanche
S6-8
Blanche wouldn't go on a bus S7 P85, Bus is a sign of inferiority?
S9-11
You're not clean enough to bring into my house with my mother, S9 P103, House is a symbol of peaceful pure haven
The problem is clothes. I tore into my trunk to see what I have that's suitable for the tropics! -S10 P105, Blanche wants good clothes for a high class party
Take a look at yourself in that worn out mardi gras outfit, rented for the fifty cents from some rag picker! S10 p109, Stanley sees her outfit as "fake" high class.
The one that give you the white fox-pieces? S10 P105, Stanley assumes the fox pieces, a symbol of high class are from the man that offered Blanche a cruise on the caribbean
Things left uncertain
Why does Blanche consider being French to be superior (of French origin)? Is this from her upbringing or an event that occurred later in her life?
Why does Stanley have trouble with the fact that he is considered a "commoner" by Blanche's standards?
What is the truth of Blanche? Is she a deceptive, play-girl that goes from guy to guy, house to house seeking refuge? Or like Stella says, a trusting, loving caring girl? Why does she lie to Mitch about having only "kissed one man"
S9-11
What is Blanche's opinion on people of Stanley's "class", after what he did to her? Did it change in any way, such as losing respect for his kind? If not, how else?
How does Blanche see Mitch? Is he, to her, a man of higher class than the rest of the poker guys?
Why does Blanche assume that the doctor isn't the man from Dallas? Is it physical, like what he is wearing? Does she see that his "class" doesn't fit what she was expecting?
Now that Mitch sees Blanche as not "clean enough", what does this mean in terms of class? To Mitch, is Blanche of lower class, higher class, or does that have nothing to do with being"pure" and "clean"?
Does Blanche feel entitled to Shep's party because of his high class, or does she really want to go to the party? Also, is it to prove to others(stanley) that she is capable of being in that social class and climbing the ladder? Or once again, just out of her mere self interest?
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