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Scene 1:
Blanche isn’t used to the working class since she and Stella live on a plantation. Elysian fields is the working class community and is the name of the place to where Blanche relocated. The Elysian Fields are a mythological place of happiness, the place where the blessed go after death. This also provides irony.
There is a feeling of depression and incomprehension, "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire." Blanche 's first action in the play is one of confusion, ambivalence, disorientation. She cannot believe where she has ended up,, or determine how she got there, on a pair of streetcars named Desire and Cemeteries.
The blue piano is used in scenes of great passion; in the beginning "expresses the spirit of the
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Stella feels horrible and you can see their marriage is getting affected already. It ends on an up note between Stella and Blanche.
Scene 3:
Lurid, nocturnal brilliance, vivid, peak of manhood as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colors, this foreshadows their arrogance and stupidity later in the scene.
He is extremely delicate. He doesn’t say much and he doesn’t get extremely involved in the poker game.
Stella is much stronger due to where she has lived for most of her womanhood. Blanche is broken and a little messed up; she is confused on where she has ended up and wonder why Stella would want this.
She means he works for what he wants. He doesn’t have smarts and it’s not handed to him like Blanche gets it. Stanley works for everything he has.
They give each other looks of anger. It is significant because it’s like two children fighting to be the best. They can’t seem to get along and they can’t seem to find a common ground.
Mitch and Blanche are both single. Mitch seems delicate and in desperation, Blanche is also in desperation. Blanche plays Mitch in a way to make him feel a love for her. This can foreshadow good and relationship but someone will blow her