Human emotion 

• grief - "hid their faces" - personification of the sun and moon 
• regretful - "fallen peter weeping bitterly"
• insecurity - "am i a stone" - interrogative - insecure  - ontological(am,be, to be)
• no emotion
• lonely - "yet give not o'er"  - self absorbed, detachment, distance

Characters in Street Car Named Desire

• characters are not real people 
• characters are literally device

-  blanche as a character is a device used by Tennessee Williams to explore the inner conflicts and sense of futility, for the Southern Belle world of his childhood, exemplified for him in the way his mother often behaved and expected her children to behave. 

Useful phrases 

• character is used to...
• illustrate
• connotate 
• reflect
• prompt us to 
• exemplify
• explore 
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