John Mcrae notes



- A certain exclusiveness to the masculinity, also to how Blanche handles her femininity.
- kindness is a questionable concept.

SCENE 1

- may to September, long hot summer.
- most scenes move to the dark of the night.
- multi cultural society.
- soundtrack is emotional undercurrent of music, voices, characters.
- play of atmosphere.
- scene of movement.
- Blanche's appearance is incongruous(out of place)
- expression of shocked disbelief.
- delicate beauty  scared of light.
- constantly trying to make a home in the society that she doesn't fit into.
- ownership and loss - another undercurrent to the play.
- Blanche  - moth like life
- she cant handle the noises
- then starts drinking
- says she doesn't drink but the audience knows she is an alcoholic.
- tragedy of loss
- 'funerals are pretty compared to deaths'
- funerals are a prettification of death

SCENE 2

- pick up of speed
- documentation
- dead hand of past catching up with future
- Blanche is not childless in a tragic way, she's childless in a end of line way, she hasn't got a future.
- epic fornication's
- becoming a multicultural play
- is Blanche already a lost cause?
- is she alive but dead in a person?
- Clutching at doctor because they're a sign for a new life
- Blanche doesn't own anything
- constantly bathing, washing, cleansing, keeping herself away from light.
- 'I was flirting with your husband'
- she flirts because it's the only thing she knows how to do.
- she thinks that's what men want.  -irresponsible- key adjective for Blanche
- she tries to make it up by being pretty.
- Tennessee wants us to fell sympathy and that she just gets around.

SCENE 3

- Poker game
- One of the possible titles
- Poker is male, violent, strong.
- Mitch emerges to have the conversation with Blanche
- She batters her eyelids and calls the toilet, ' the little boys room'
- Mitch represents stability, but lives alone with his mum , would be seen that he is gay, which he is not.
- Gay is a fact not a sensibility and cliche.
- No gallantry in Stanley.

SCENE 4

- almost runs on from previous scene.
- all outside noises are like a choral commentary.
- 'Life goes on'
- Blanche somehow goes on
- desire is very much key
- Blanche does function,
- Contrast between what mind does and what emotions do.
-  audience realizes its a fantasy, but also reality.



Catharsis - release of emotions of fear and pity.

Tragedy - in its pure form, a character from a high social position(king) falls due to their fatal flaws
The end result should be death, but in street car its not literal death.