A03

• sister Rose severe mental health ilness 18, consined mental insitution
• post war era 


  American dream success depended on hard work not priveledges and birth, America was seen as a blank slate and 'melting pot' of immigrants
• southern gothic

  • traditional steryotype of the demure southern Belle by making damsel in distress for her naive suitos benefits but also promiscious alchoholic who threatenes trash sis marriage; darkness of the Southern Gothic heroine
• infuses elements of Romanticism through Blanche's desperate quest for transcendence amidst the harsh realities of post-war America, mirroring the movement's emphasis on imagination, emotion, and the individual's yearning for escape from the constraints of society. Blanches fantacies/illusions/desire better life
• • In late 19th-century and early 20th-century America, ‘new immigrants’ from Italy, Ireland, Poland, Greece, Hungary and the Slavic countries occupied a racial middle ground and were considered ‘not-quite-white’.