The setting of the story isn't just incidental, it takes us to 1947, 2 years after the World War II in a poor French Quarter of New Orleans, on Elysian Fields, a street in the east of the city, which in the Greek mythology is considered to be the resting place of the souls of the heroes who have died. Moreover, the colors used in the description of the setting " a peculiarly tender blue, almost a turquoise" bring lyrism and magic to the real atmosphere of decay of New Orleans. The realism of the social issues of New Orleans is filled with magic as well through Blanche's imagined horrors, such as the polka music and the gunshot overhead, the Mexican woman with the flowers.
Speaking about the clothes of the personages, the undershirts worn by