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• It relieved pressure by giving form to necessary truths about sexual desire, gender relations, and historically-rooted class divisions for an America pulling itself out of the trauma of war and facing a new world- industrialized
• Willaim went live New Orelans in 1938 because of liberal,sexually tolerant ethos... stage directions richly detaield ie two storey corner builidings
• New Orleans can be seen as a central chracter in play holds anxieties,passions, historical pasts 'atmosphere of decay' unique geo spot highlights complex relationships
• New orleas is a poetic Microcosm of a society that is diff rest USA with its own 'raffish charm' this juxtapsoes Blanche who dwells on "belle Reve' of the old society only exists in the past; New orelas opposite where she came from: Elysian feilds (area of the afterlife in Greek mythology) is an actual road which is a residental area for the working class
• modest two room flat + summer atompsherr of New orelans = intimate,claustraphobic,lack of privacy no sepration, unique intesnsity (new orelans also a hub of jazz musicions explaining blue piano)