The main character, Blanche DuBois, is a southern belle who has lived on a plantation in Laurel, Belle Reve, her whole life. ... The name of Belle Reve is French for ''beautiful dream'' and suggests the nostalgia Williams has for the old southern lifestyle. ... Belle Reve's name also hints at the condition of Blanche's mentality, which is in a dream-like state. ... The image of Belle Reve's beauty is also expressed through imagery. ... The apartment where Blanche is staying, Elysian Fields, is considerably smaller than her old home in Belle Reve. ...

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The main character, Blanche DuBois, is a southern belle who has lived on a plantation in Laurel, Belle Reve, her whole life. ... The first evidence that the old southern lifestyle is dying is when Blanche reveals to Stella, her sister, that Belle Reve has been lost. ... The name of Belle Reve is French for ''beautiful dream'' and suggests the nostalgia Williams has for the old southern lifestyle. ... The image of Belle Reve's beauty is also expressed through imagery. ... The apartment where Blanche is staying, Elysian Fields, is considerably smaller than her old h...

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Blanche is introduced to us as the quintessential "Southern Belle," but as the play progresses it is clear that Blanche Du Bois" undignified reality is degrading in the extreme. ... (Blanche Sc9) Adding to Blanche's distress is the loss of Belle Reve, the family home and dealing with the deaths of many family members, all of which she had to cope with on her own. ... "I stayed at Belle Reve and tried to hold it together I took the blows" (Blanche sc 1) On her arrival at her sister's place in New Orleans, Blanche is faced with yet another difficulty. She is faced with accusati...

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I believe that the loss of Belle Reve, the loss of her husband and the loss of her teaching job drove her to move in with her sister and to this state between sanity and insanity. ... I also saw an underlying issue between Blanche and Stella about Belle Reve. ... He questioned her about what happened to Bella Reve, he questioned her about why she had lost her teaching job, and he questions her about her rich friend that is taking her on a cruise. ...

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They've been through a lot, the loss of family, money and the loss of Belle Reve [the families estate]. ... Here she is lying to her sister about Belle Reve, "But you are the one that abandoned Belle Reve, not I! ...

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She has also lost Belle Reve, the place she used to live in with her aristocratic family. Losing Belle Reve stands for losing her aristocratic past. ... Belle Reve the plantation, symbolizes the past, both personal and collective, that is now onlya beautiful illusion; likewise, Vieux Carre, the cramped apartment of the present, stands for the threatening reality in which Blanche feels cornered.(Debusscher 173) ...

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Blanche "You haven't said a word about my appearance." Blanche said to Stella once she arrived in New Orleans. Blanche is obsessed with how people view her. She always wants to look perfect. To make herself look that way, she lies about having lots of money, and why she left Belle Reve. Everything ...

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At the Belle Reve, Blanche had Negro servants, but in the city, all races mix easily. ... The "flowers for the dead," sold by the Mexican woman, are symbolic of all the deaths at Belle Reve, and the appearance of the Mexican woman in scene nine reminds Blanche of those deaths. After slamming the door in the old woman's face, she goes on and on "about how death plagued Belle Reve" to "an uncomprehending Mitch" (2), as if the old woman's presence had prompted this discussion. ...

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When things with Belle Reve went sour she moved in with Stella and her husband Stanley who is basically the stranger lending his hand. ... She shows up at Stella's acting like life is perfect when she really is hoping Stella will board her since Blanche has lost Belle Reve. ... She lost Belle Reve and ruined things with Mitch by not being truthful and having to figure out the truth through the grapevine. ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire - Complexity of the Characters It is the complexity of the main characters and their interactions that make A Streetcar Named Desire such a successful and challenging play. The play A Streetcar Named Desire made playwright Tennessee William's name and has deservedly sin...

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Whether or not we admit it to ourselves, we are all haunted by a truly awful sense of impermanence." - TW, "Introduction." The Rose Tatoo, 1951 1) The south a changing reality: a sociological approach to ASND No other writer has been more closely connected to the region of his birth than Tennes...

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Before the action of the play, Stella Kowalski moved out of her family estate, Belle Reve, in Mississippi when her father died. ... Blanche stayed at a hotel in Laurel after losing Belle Reve, calledThe Flamingo?... Blanche feels hardships were Stella's fault since she left Belle Reve and abandoned her the summer their father died. ...

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Kernan explains that she turns away from the misery of reality at Belle Reve to her fairy tale romantic endeavors. ... Her appearance is changing from the young, ideal Southern Belle she once was. ... You showed me a snapshot of the place with the columns [Belle Reve] and how you loved it. ... Blanche, on the other hand, holds on dearly to her memories of Belle Reve and her former life of aristocracy. ... In response Blanche says, "I take it for granted that you still have sufficient memory of Belle Reve to find this place and these pokers players impossible to live with"(80). ...

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Life is filled with many contradictions-not just the sweet fragrance designed by Calvin Klein (that is just one of them). Without contradictions, life would be incomplete because we would not understand the meaning of two opposing ends. The world we live in consists of everything interconnecting w...

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He is cold and extremely practical, demanding to see the bill of sale for Belle Reve and resenting the fact that, as Stella's husband, he has lost his lawful share in the property. He suspects that Blanche has bought fur coats and jewelry by cheating Stella and Stanley of their share of Belle Reve. ...

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The first example of this is in Scene II, where Blanche talks to Stanley about how Belle Reve was lost when she says, "There are thousands of papers. Stretching back over hundreds of years, affecting Belle Reve as, piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications " (Williams 43). ...

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When Blanche says, "Oh, I guess he's just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but maybe he's what we need to mix with our blood now that we've lost Belle Reve." (44), she implies that if she hadn't lost Belle Reve, Stanley would not be a fit husband for Stella due to his social status. ...

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Stella left Belle Reve, their childhood home, a few years before the play opens and married Stanley Kowalski, a brutish and dominating prize rooster who is a travelling salesman for a machine-parts company. ... Blanche has just come from Belle Reve, an antique Southern mansion, to Elysian Fields, the ironic name of the street where Stella lives with Stanley in a two-bedroom, run-down neighborhood. ...

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During their first confrontation, Stanley attempts repeatedly to intimidate Blanche into giving him the information he wants concerning the loss of Belle Reve. ... Ignoring Blanche's attempt to change the subject by flirting with him--and this is clearly her intention when she asks him to help button her dress, and when she takes a drag on his cigarette--Stanley interrogates her about the loss of Belle Reve. ... The implication is clear; although Stanley has never seen Belle Reve it belongs to him, through his wife. ...

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Sanity v. Society as a Majority In an insane world, a sane person would be insane. I"m not sure if it makes sense to everybody else, but it makes perfect sense to me. In the next few paragraphs I will attempt to link two different stories and their protagonists to show the counterparts between a...

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Sometimes in life, there are times when you are faced with a struggle and often times, no matter how hard you try to get yourself out of this struggle, you just can't and you end up feeling as though you have lost the battle. In "A Streetcar Named Desire,"" by Tennessee Williams, there are four char...

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The conflict of reality and fantasy plagued her mind like a battle in a field of roses. Is the prominent truth of reality really better than the playful ambitions of one's own mind? The constant engagement of Blanche's presence in her own world, and the lack thereof in the real world make for a comp...

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Symbolically, the plantation's very name, Belle Reve, implies a beautiful dream of a life style that may never have been a reality. ... "" (2) The reality of that New Orleans is something to which Stella has adjusted, but Blanche continues to hope against it and imagine a far different world that more mirrors what she is unwilling to admit was lost, or never existed, at Belle Reve. As Griffin maintains, " Throughout the play this traditional symbol of the Old South, the plantation Belle Reve, will be contrasted with the harsh reality of the Kowalski dwelling...

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Blanche inherited an estate called the Belle Reve, and in the opening scene, she admits to Stella that she has lost the estate. In a summary of Blanche's life, she was somewhat wealthy and then after the death of her husband, the loss of Belle Reve, and her leave of absence from her high school teaching job, she now has no money or way of making money, which is why she is living with her sister Stella. ...

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