COLOUR

• “You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river” - S1

  • Personification of the river, in giving it ‘breath’, shows that because of the colour that it is alive
  • Multiculturalism
• “roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes. 

  " Stanley carries…a red stained package from a butcher’s” - S1

  • Colourful description serves to accentuates energy + liveliness of working class (Stanley)
• “Her appearance is incongruous to the setting. She [Blanche] is daintily dressed in a white suit…white gloves and hat” - S1

  • Lack of colour- upper class is declining, as it lacks the vivacity of the working class - will replace the upper class
  • Belle Reve is repeatedly describes as "the place with the big white columns."
  • White = purity that becomes tragically ironic when her promiscuity is revealed.
• “Blanche comes out of the bathroom in a red satin robe” - S2

  • Blanche romanticising - simple bath robe made from such a material as satin +bright a colour as red.
  • No real effect on her life - way of making the world more beautiful + feeling better better.
  • Sexual connotations - sense created of her being a predator planning to take advantage of Mitch.
• “ The poker players…wear coloured shirts, solid blues, [...]a light green, and they are men…as…powerful as the primary colours " - S3

  • Vibrancy + liveliness is highlighted by the many vivid colours, also in surroundings - shows the influence they have
  • Also be said that it is when they are alone that they stand out -better off separate from the upper class.
• " and get the coloured lights going…” - Stanley - S9

  • Colours are linked to passion -sexual passion between - prevented from living their usual vibrant, colourful lives until Blanche leaves.