Critics

• The use of music acts 'almost as a commentary on the action' - chorus aspect of tragedy 


  Lucy Webster
• The blue piano means the audience both 'share Blanche's perception of the situation' and 'remain observers' 


  Lucy Webster
• Reinforces the idea of women as 'either child-bearers and home-makers or whores' 


  Patricia Hern
• 'Blanche learns that gentility brings no lasting earthly rewards' so becomes addicted to desire.


  Patricia Hern
• Blanche 'intrudes on the sacred marriage' 


  Roderick
• 'Her manipulation infests those around her' 


  Roderick
• Stella is 'just as deluded' 


  Bleinham
• Blanche is 'a victim of the mythology of a Southern Belle' 


  Samuel Tapp
• Stella is a 'victim of a patriarchal society who has deluded herself into thinking she is happy' 


  Foley
• 'Blanche's sexual appetite is disturbingly voracious' 


  Reeve-Tucker
• Blanche's desire is 'all consuming, powerful, and relentless' 


  Reeve-Tucker