https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche en-us 2017-11-22 10:49:48 UTC 2025-10-22 12:06:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Cake.png https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209481155 - Compared to a moth --> they're drawn to lights which kill them. Blanche often tries to avoid light whenever possible
- "delicate beauty" --> juxtaposes with the city's raffish charm]]> 2017-11-22 15:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209481155 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209481253 Williams is depicting how out of place her character is in New Orleans ]]> 2017-11-22 15:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209481253 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209481806 You see I still have this awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping [she laughs nervously and glances at STELLA for reassurance ]]]> 2017-11-22 15:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209481806 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209484500 "Myself, for being a such a liar!" Blanche knows she is a liar. There's is an irony because she is joking/mocking around.]]> 2017-11-22 15:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209484500 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209485994 "I have to admit I love being waited on" shows Blanche's need to go back to her upper class attitudes, as a coping mechanism. ]]> 2017-11-22 15:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209485994 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209535360 "... compiling a notebook of quaint little words and phrases I've picked up here." illustrates how out of Blanche is in Elysian Fields as she doesn't understand their colloquial language and idioms ]]> 2017-11-22 19:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209535360 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209536185 "Right on my pretty white skirt!" Blanche spills coke on her white skirt, suggests that her innocence and purity has been tarnished by the soda. She is finding it harder to keep up this appearance/lie of being an innocent and pure woman ]]> 2017-11-22 19:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209536185 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209536646 "... lights off. Shall we?" Blanche "must avoid a strong light" as it will show her flaws and imperfections. ]]> 2017-11-22 19:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209536646 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209537279 "But it wouldn't be make believe if you believed in me!" Blanche's song alludes to her thoughts about her lies as she may think that it doesn't matter if she lies as long as her lives are believed. ]]> 2017-11-22 19:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit6_Blanche/wish/209537279