Scene Nine Flashcards
1
Q
Blanche drinks ‘Southern Comfort’
A
Irony- harks back to her past. Converts the environment into her own.
2
Q
Blanche- “I don’t want realism… I want magic’
A
Recognition of her own mental instability
3
Q
Mexican women ‘Flores. Flores. Flores para los muertos’
A
Expressionistic symbolism demonstrates the death of the relationship.
Death is inextricably linked to Blanche’s experience of love, re-exemplified through the ‘young soldiers’