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the overlapping voices show the hustle and bustle of the city

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'you are practically always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played' - lively and busy 

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'you are practically always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played' - lively and busy 

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Stella: "I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night" Blanche: "Why, Stella?"

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Stella: "I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night" Blanche: "Why, Stella?"

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Blanche has never been in love and does not understand Stella's desire for Stanley

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"the yellow-checked linoleum of the table".

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"the yellow-checked linoleum of the table".

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shows that this place is quite socially modern and forward thinking for the time

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The white woman is EUNICE, who occupies the upstairs flat; the COLOURED WOMAN a neighbour

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The white woman is EUNICE, who occupies the upstairs flat; the COLOURED WOMAN a neighbour

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Implies the black woman is below the white woman in the building showing the social divide between races even though this is a integrated society

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Gives the room a worn in feel. The 'closet' Blanche gets the alcohol from is used often.

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"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries"

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"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries"

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Blanche's descent to a 'hell'. Desire could be seen as one of the deadly sins and so this leads to 'hell'

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Contrast between a mythological paradise and Blanche's idea of Hell.

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French for beautiful dream

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Tennessee Williams had intentions to try and portray how he imagined the setting to the director. The audience were never going to know about the descriptive stage directions yet Williams felt it necessary to write them that way.

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Tennessee Williams had intentions to try and portray how he imagined the setting to the director. The audience were never going to know about the descriptive stage directions yet Williams felt it necessary to write them that way.

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"gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay"

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"gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay"

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makes decay seem like a good thing, suggesting that nobody cares or notices the 'decay'

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'Negro Woman' is able to advise other members of society, and engage in conversations with those of different ethnicity - shows difference from the rest of America at the time

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'Negro Woman' is able to advise other members of society, and engage in conversations with those of different ethnicity - shows difference from the rest of America at the time

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"The sky is ... a peculiarly tender blue"

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"The sky is ... a peculiarly tender blue"

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Could be a metaphor for and foreshadowing of a sadness that hangs over the town or will affect the characters in the play

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contrasts the character of blanche with the setting

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Blanche lies to her sister about drinking, shows there is not trust between the Stella and her. Blanche acts fine when she is stressed over losing Belle Reve. She still creates this illusion that everything is fine.

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"Two rooms can be seen, not too clearly defined. The one first entered is primarily a kitchen but contains a folding bed to be used by BLANCHE. The room beyond this is a bedroom. Off this room is a narrow door to a bathroom."

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"Two rooms can be seen, not too clearly defined. The one first entered is primarily a kitchen but contains a folding bed to be used by BLANCHE. The room beyond this is a bedroom. Off this room is a narrow door to a bathroom."

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Description of Stella and Stanley's home - it is very small.

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"warm breath" is stifling and sinister, much as the area is to Blanche

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"warm breath" is stifling and sinister, much as the area is to Blanche

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'Negro' was used as a neutral word for African Americans at the time, however was often put aside curse words to insinuate they had an inferior place in society.

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'Negro' was used as a neutral word for African Americans at the time, however was often put aside curse words to insinuate they had an inferior place in society.

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implies the place has a lot of character and is pleasant, though an outsider may think otherwise.

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Sexual innuendo, Stanley: Catch! Stella: What? Stanley: Meat!

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Sexual innuendo, Stanley: Catch! Stella: What? Stanley: Meat!

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shows the dynamic of the relationship between Stella and Stanley. This

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"Two women, one white and one coloured, are taking air on the steps of the building" 

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"Two women, one white and one coloured, are taking air on the steps of the building" 

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This shows as well as there being little tension between races in this part of town that there was a lack of privacy as they both have to go out together at the same place on "the" building.

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"Always just around the corner from...."

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"Always just around the corner from...."

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suggests a sense of the people living very close together, possibly being trapped
this also links in with the "overlapping voices"

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Tennessee Williams sets the scene in a novel style rather that a brief description. This is interesting because it shows that he wanted to give off a certain style even though it is only the actors that will read this. He then adding lots of different conversations overlapping in the first part of the scene to clarify this to the audience if the actors were unable to showing that the setting was extremely important to the play

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''new Orleans is a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town''

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''new Orleans is a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town''

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Races get along well whereas in the plantations one race was treated unfairly.

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Use of complex and descriptive language - unusual for stage directions.

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Use of complex and descriptive language - unusual for stage directions.

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this shows that whilst the inhabitants may be poor, they have strong character

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Audience's first impression of Blanche, rude and does not respect people

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'a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races' This quote shows integration not segregation, which was unusual at the time the play was set. 

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'a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races' This quote shows integration not segregation, which was unusual at the time the play was set. 

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''expresses the spirit and life which go on here''

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''expresses the spirit and life which go on here''

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means heaven

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'bananas and coffee' are grown at plantations - links to context of Southern USA

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'bananas and coffee' are grown at plantations - links to context of Southern USA

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"attenuates the atmosphere of decay" - The place is old, it's deteriorating, but that is masked by the charming atmosphere created by the smells, the music and the people.

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"attenuates the atmosphere of decay" - The place is old, it's deteriorating, but that is masked by the charming atmosphere created by the smells, the music and the people.

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'This "Blue Piano" expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here' - Plastic Theatre 

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'This "Blue Piano" expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here' - Plastic Theatre 

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''rickety outside stairs''

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"You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses..."

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"You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses..."

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Personifies the river. Shows that they are in an urban area. The river has not been cared for. Lack of description of life (no animals mentioned). Reinforces the idea of Elysian Fields as a beaten down and 'weathered' area.

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"it has a raffish charm" - It's a very pleasant place to be, despite first appearances

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"it has a raffish charm" - It's a very pleasant place to be, despite first appearances

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implies the place is old and rotting and deteriorating but it is accepted by its inhabitants

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The whole introduction to the setting is a kind of foreshadowing of future, most likely negative events. "white frames, weathered grey", "warm breath of the brown river"

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"Above the music of the "Blue Piano"  the voices of the people on the street can be heard overlapping"
None of what these people are saying can be heard properly their voices fade into the background like their can is often ignored or goes unnoticed by those better off.  Blanch shows this when she says "Only Poe! Only Mr Edgar Allen Poe!- could do it justice". She  Would not have believed it if she had not seen it and would have thought it a horror story.
This all inforces the idea of poverty the setting gives.

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Elysian Fields

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"warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses" - personification, represents poverty at the time

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"warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses" - personification, represents poverty at the time

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Overlapping voices such as the vendor shouting "Red Hots!" Shows the crowded atmosphere and business of the town

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Overlapping voices such as the vendor shouting "Red Hots!" Shows the crowded atmosphere and business of the town

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This could also suggest a lack of privacy within the town and hints at poverty with how close everything is together

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'weathered grey' indicates a loss of character.

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'weathered grey' indicates a loss of character.

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'gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay' - juxtaposition

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"A corresponding air is evoked by the music of Negro entertainers at a bar-room around the corner"

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"A corresponding air is evoked by the music of Negro entertainers at a bar-room around the corner"

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Shows that the black American's still done have full respect from other people as they are still referred to as Negro's