suggest her fragility”(mrhoyesibwebsite.com). The lower class is on the rise and the higher class is trying to stop them from being on the rise because they feel like they could take their positions. The higher class people in America automatically think they are better than the people in the lower class simply because of the classes they are put into. The lower class is just trying to make more money for them and their families so that their kids can have a better life, the lower class works way harder than the higher class but the higher class is still looked at as better than the lower class.
Tennessee Williams uses color to represent the difference between the lower class and the higher class. The characters in the lower class have colors that are
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The upper class is slowly declining because everybody is doing industrialization jobs instead of doing the jobs that require more brain work, all the men and women are working in factories because more factories are being made. The lower class has the strength to do work and the upper class has “ intellectual strength” which is where they lack skills that they would need if they were in the lower class. Blanche is characterized to be fragile “ right on my pretty white shirt” (Williams 170). This shows how Blanche can easily be stained because of how fragile she is. The upper class has “ lack of color. The idea that the upper class is declining, as it lacks the vivacity of the working class” (mrhoyesibwebsite.com). The upper class is fragile because it lacks the things that the lower class does, it is not strong enough to not break when under pressure while the lower class can stay strong because of the certain abilities they have as a class. In the novel Williams says “ comes around the corner in work clothes; blue denim shirt. He is unshaven” (200). The blue represents the strength and the work ethic of the lower class while Blanche is in red and that symbolises femininity and