On the other hand, from Blanches perspective, the rape is symbolically representing her complete break. She is physically and mentally destructed. Suggests an overall decline also from a social status point of view, a working class man raping a high class women, symbolizing the winning of the New America and that the old ideologies of America are going to become extinct. However there is no voice from TW on what ideology he supports, he criticizes both, the New America and old America, there is no defense for one or the other.