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1. What does Blanche bathing represent in the play?
She is try to cleanse herself on the outside, due to all the tragic events in her life.

2. Whats does drinking in the play show about Blanche?
Blanche is trying clean herself on the inside.

3. What does the sea show the reader about Blanche?
That she wants a peaceful death at sea.

4. What does the Mexican flower lady represent?
The foreshaowing of Blanche's insanity.

5. What is the Napoleonic Code?
A law that states that anythig a wife owns, her husband owns as well.

6. What is the myth of Tereus about?
Tereus raped his wife's sister, and cut out her tongue while his wife is giving birth to their child. The sister wove the scene and showed it to her sister. The wife killed her son and fed it in a stew to the King Tereus.

7. Who is Procne repsented as in the play?
Stella.

8. Blanch repsens whom in the myth of Tereus?
Philomela

9. What nside of human nature does Stanley show?
Animalistic.

10. What makes Mitch different from the other men in the play?
He has a softer side, thats not as rage filled or animalistic.

11. What was the hotel's name that Blanche stayed at?
Tarantula.

12. What subject did Blanche teach?
English.

13. What type of music plays in the backround when Blanche's ex-husband commited suicide?
The Polka.

14. Why did Blanche's ex-husband kill himself?
Blanche expressed her hatred towards his homosexuality.

15. Why does Stella have Blanch sent to a mental patient center?
She couldn't believe Blanche and still be able to live with Stanley.

16. What was the plantation's name int he story?
Belle Reve

17. What was the apartment building complex called?
Elysian Fields

18. What is Stanley’s birthday present to Blanche?
A bus ticket back to Laural.

19. Why is Blanche made to leave Laural?
She had relations with a 17 year old stuent of hers.

20. Who wrote the play?
Tennasee Williams.