CLASS

• " Look at these feathers and furs that she come here to preen herself in! " - Stanley -S2

  • "feathers" links with Stanley being a "richly feathered male bird", not like threat of dominance + Idea of Blanche living behind a facade.
• What country is Stanley from?

  Poland
• "And you run out an' get her cokes, I suppose? And serve 'em to Her Majesty in the tub? " - Stanley - S2

  • Dislike at someone ordering around "his" possession - PATRIARCHY
  • Marxist lens - Not want Stella to serve the upper-class - He does not want to be used as a tool for the aristocrats.
  • "majesty": B's deslusion and also her pompous nature.
• [ Two women , one white and one coloured ] - S1 - op stage directions

  • Multiculturalism
• " I am not a Polack " - S8

  • Stanley represents new USA - upwardly mobile immigrants. Blanche = relic in - Southern landed no longer has a viable presence in the American economy, so Blanche is disenfranchised monetarily and socially.
  • Also tries to reaffirm his identity + distance himself from his past.
• " Only Poe ! Only Mr Edgar Allan Poe " - Blanche - S1

  " Ghoul - haunted ghostland of Weir " - loss of Allan Gray

  •  Referring to the poem Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • In poem , person "stopped by the door of a tomb ..." - Refers to what Blanche believes Stella's house looks like
  • Stanley's name meaning "stone clearing," gives that illusion - poem about tomb
• " I pulled you down off them columns and you loved it " - Stanley - S7