language

• blanche


  fanciful imagery

  high-flown rhetoric, which often rings as false= purposeful to reveal her pretentions & to remind audience she used to teach english

  sometimes there's a lyrical quality= emphasises the words' emotional content
• stanley


  down-to-earth, often insulting imagery

  non-standard, slangy, often carelessly slurred speech

  contrast between stanley and blanche's speech signal the potential clash between them
• stella


  correct english but matter-of fact, mostly unemotional tone (= shows her upbringing mingled with stanley's influence)

  however, when stella speaks of stanley she often betrays the intensity of her passion

  arguably, stella's plain language, lacking in imagery, denotes a lack of imagination that enables her to believe stanley's story rather than blanche's at the end of the play
• mitch


  efforts at speaking colloquially are marred by his genteel circumlocutions, and grammatical slip-ups, e.g. "he don't look too clumsy"

  he cannot follow blanches flights of fantasy, e.g. scene 6
• stage directions


  a-typical= more detailed than strictly necessary and written in a more evocative, accurate sense employing imagery to convey their meaning

  unusual= adds an extra enjoyment for the reader vs the audience