... Blanche says, "Only Poe! Only Mr. Edgar Allen Poe - Could do it justice!" of her sister's neighborhood(20). The shabby, unrefined buildings instantly repulse her. What Blanche calls "years of epic fornications" have eaten what was left of the old aristocratic family that the sisters belonged to. Stella is being forced to play intermediary of the two sides as kin to ... intimacy. Blanche believes that once she and a man have sex, he will no longer want to share the same level of intimacy with her again. He focuses on Blanche DuBois's epic tragedies as centers for her mental wreck. Althou...

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... once have been a grand estate, Blanche bitterly describes as having been lost "as piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications- (SND, p. 43). What was left of the house and a few acres of land, Blanche tells Stella, was lost to the expenses of the many family deaths: "now you sit ... ...

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