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- - - - Blanche is – as usual - speaking in a vague way.
        
        perhaps she cannot bear to recount the traumatic reality
        
        the truth is hidden behind her vague language – just like homosexuals had to hide the truth
        
        the play could not openly deal with homosexuality because it would not have been acceptable and theatres would not have produced the play
- - - - Original audiences at the Broadway production applauded
      - Stanley from an immigrant family, whereas Blanche harks back to a class-like system that the South adopted, where she traces her roots back to French Huguenots
- - - - Mary is venerated as a saint
    - - purity
      - virginity
      - divinity, saintliness
      - motherhood
      - respectability
  - - - 'Stella is lying down in the bedroom. Her face is serene in the early morning sunlight. One hand rests on her belly, rounding slightly with new maternity'
        
        Madonna….she is a mother and a home maker, and her sexual desire is socially sanctioned by marriage
      - But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of make everything else seem—unimportant.
        
        Whore - she has a strong sexual appetite and is willing to sacrifice everything for her sexual desires
  - - - Blanche feels she must portray the image of a Madonna, otherwise she will not be respected
      - Williams shows a clear understanding of the difficult position women are in…trying to balance these two polarised opinions.
      - '[Fumbling to embrace her]: What I been missing all summer.... [dropping his hands from her waist]: You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother.'
        
        When Mitch finds out about Blanche’s past, he desires her….but does not respect her.
- - - - "Her delicate beauty must avoid strong light"
        
        female adjective - emphasis on need for beauty for a southern belle
  - - - (Stanley) "Since when do you give me orders?"
        
        Stella conform to the expected role of women
- - - - These ‘cures’ often targeted specific populations e.g. as immigrants, people of colour, the poor, unmarried mothers, and the disabled.