Bella Reeve

Question 1

What does Belle Reeve mean?

Answer 1

Grandeur, traditions, and the social hierarchy of the Old South.

Question 2

What does Belle Reeve consist of?

Answer 2

Plantations
Aristocrat privileges
values of honour and social superiority

Question 3

Context of Belle Reeve as symbol of old south.

Answer 3

Broader historical decline of aristocratic families after civil war where it shifted to working class.

Question 4

Quotes for failing Belle Reeve

Answer 4

‘All of those deaths!’
‘While you were in bed with a Polak’
‘The loss-the loss’

Question 5

Impact of loss of Bella Reeve on Blanche quotes

Answer 5

‘I took the blows in my face and body.’
‘I stayed and fought for it bled for it almost died for it’
‘I want magic’

Question 6

Illusion vs reality of Belle Reeve

Answer 6

‘Exchanged the land for their epic fornications’
‘I don’t want realism’
‘I’m a woman of intelligence and breeding’

Question 7

Broader social context link to quotes.

Answer 7

‘There was a rattle trap named streetcar named desire and it brought me here’
‘I am the king around here’
‘I couldn’t go on living with Stanley if I believed her’