The relationship between Blanche and Stanley illustrates the prejudice many first or second-generation European faced. Blanche refers to him as a “polack” and “swine”. This reveals Blanche’s racism or xenophobia. In late 19th-century and early 20th-century America, new immigrants’ from Italy, Ireland, Poland, Greece, Hungary and the Slavic countries occupied a racial middle ground and were considered ‘not-quite-white’. However, Stanley predominantly faces prejudice as a result of his class position, rather than his ethnic Otherness or ambiguity.