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| 'New streets in New Orleans which is called Elysian Fields' 'They told me to take streetcar named desire then transfer to one called cemeteries.' | -Greek mythology this was where greek heroes were buried. -Journeying into death |
| 'The section is poor but unlike corresponding sections in other American cities it has a raffish charm.' | Raffish= unconventional and strange, New Orleans was different from other American cities because of his multiculturalism. |
| 'The sky which is tender blue invests the scene with a kind of lyricism gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay.' | . |
| 'Blue piano expresses the life that goes on here.' | . |
| 'He heaves the meat package at her' Which she catches 'mildly' | Power relationship, meat= raw sexual desire sexual ownership. |
| 'Incongruous to the setting she is daintily dressed' | -Adjective 'incongruous, shows how she does not fit into this environment. |
| 'There's something about her uncertain manner that suggests a moth.' | Her comparison to a moth also implies that she is fated for destruction since moths are attracted to the light which is that cause of their death. |
| 'Blanche springs up and runs to her with a wild cry, she begins to speak with feverish vivacity, they catch each other in a spasmodic embrace.' | Feverish= having a fever, disease and illness reflection of blanche's mental state. |
| 'Don't worry your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard she's just all shaken up.' 'Only Edgar Allan poe- could do it justice Out there is the ghoul - haunted woodland of Weir.' | Deception- attempting to preserve her reputation. Reference to a poem by Poe called Ulalume, in which he haunts through to woodlands of weir and finds his lovers vault, comparing the house to a grave. |
| 'I I I took the blows in my face and my body, the long parade to the graveyard, funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Grim Reaper had put his tent at our doorstep.' | Death imagery evoked. |
| 'Animal joy is implicit in his movement, power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens.' | S |
| 'Lordly composure' | God like, authoritative. |
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| 'Napoleonic code.' | -Law that stated all of the wifes posessions went to her husband. |
| 'Crosses the drapes with a smouldering look.' | . |
| she sprays herself with the atmoizer then playfully sprays him too,’ | -Spirited nature. |
| 'Picture of Van gogh's billiard parlour at night | Painting displays ideas abut alcoholism, various colours convey the different problems faced by the characters. |
| 'Kitchen suggests a lurid nocturnal brilliance.' | The artificially lurid, vivid kitchen in the middle of the night is somewhat sinister and hell-like. The card-playing and drinking amplifies the men’s animal natures. |
| 'Solid blue, a purple a red' | Primary colours reflects the primitive nature of these men. |
| 'loud whack on her thigh' (sharply) 'That's not fun stanley. | . |
| 'She's somewhat older than I just slightly less than a year.' | Deception- desire for youth, diffident as a result of her age. |
| 'I cant stand a naked light bulb anymore than I cn a rude remark. | Distaste for the light. |
| 'He advances and disappears, there is the sound of a blow , there is grappling and cursing something is overturned with a crash.' | . |
| 'Throws his head like a baying hound,with heaven splitting voice Stell-Laaaaah' | . |
| 'They come together with low animal moans.' | . |
| 'He bears her into the dark flat.' | -Return to the dark flat has association with danger and jeopardy, |
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