Scene Nine Flashcards

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Blanche drinks ‘Southern Comfort’

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Irony- harks back to her past. Converts the environment into her own.

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Blanche- “I don’t want realism… I want magic’

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Recognition of her own mental instability

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Mexican women ‘Flores. Flores. Flores para los muertos’

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Expressionistic symbolism demonstrates the death of the relationship.
Death is inextricably linked to Blanche’s experience of love, re-exemplified through the ‘young soldiers’

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