The Southern Gothic genre:
STELLA AND STANLEY: Traits of Southern Gothic genre are identifiable in Stella + Stanley’s relationship - isolation, irony, abuse, madness, sex + violence
Stanley is somewhat ISOLATED due to his class, arguably a product of his environment
RACIAL TENSION: "the somewhat easy intermingling of races" S1 stage directions
DERELICT SETTINGS: New Orleans - "raffish charm", "weathered gray" Belle Reve -
infused with death as Blanche watches her family die out, "epic fornications"
FLAWED AND ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS: Blanche, Stella, Stanley