contexts

• due to women being reliant on a man for economic support, women often lacked status and autonomy
• stanley conforms to the idea of hegemonic masculinity unlike Mitch and blanche with hegemonic feminity
• Stanley's antagonism could be said to represent the aggressive nature of new America
• expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality
• The night cafe- night time implies more than realism, driven by emotion- on surface appears realistic
• The plantation, southern culture of manners, formality- built on slave labour which was used to cultivate land and therefore feed this lifestyle. Civil War- rift in society as south lost, led to decay of the South the lifestyle decayed.
• New South- move from agriculture to industry which brings immigration, birth of jazz, permissive morality