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A Streetcar Named Desire - Coggle Diagram

- - - - A city in Louisiana, southern state of the USA.
        Known as a place with lots of music, particularly jazz and gambling (shown by the poker games Stanley plays and the whole structure of Streetcar, being like one big poker game).
        Blanche’s refined tastes, including her dislike of vulgarity, reflect the values of the old South.
        Wealthy Southern families, likely to have adhered to slavery, losing their money was highly romanticised in forms of literature and cinema. Blanche's family would have probably been built on slavery.
- - - - Williams identifies with Blanche in the sense that she represents everything beautiful and delicate about society - Literature, fantasy and the arts. Her delicacy is shown by the moth :butterfly: motif - she wears very airy light weight clothing and flutters about carelessly saying senseless things.
  - - - Leaves Blanche for Stanley - unforgivable situation for modern readers but understandable as Stella's only security in life is her financial state with Stanley and home
  - - - she needs the admiration from men to feel some self-worth.
  - - - He is a down-to-earth character, almost ape like. He lacks ideals and imagination unlike Blanche and represents the future of America.
        
        His brutish and degenerate behaviour, first seen when he beats his wife and is clearly shown when he rapes his sister-in-law
        
        The play ends with him having no remorse for his actions and depicting a family man, opening the blouse of his wife whilst she holds their baby
        
        This representation is wrong, if we consider the rape of Blanche, therefore ironically calls in to question society's decision in to ostracize Blanche.
        
        Williams favours the ideals of the Old South, but knows that the future is Stanley's generation - New South.
        Williams uses this play to help question society's choice in heading into a animalistic future and disregarding the beauty of the arts.
  - - - Soft spot for his mother, therefore for Blanche he is also gentleman like the Southern gentleman that she would've liked - Shep Huntleigh and Allan Grey