02 scene 1
Notable for long stage directions.
- clue to themes which will be important.
"Elysian fields", "Stella for star"
The play goes from May to September, throughout the summer.
- When you read the play you feel the heat.
Everything takes place in evening. Dark.
Not just two or three people involved in a stiuation.
- microcosm for society, the people upstairs, going by on the streets etc.
The stage directions are communicating to the audiences senses.
When we see characters we don't know who they are.
- first two characters are white and black; women.
- integration of white and coloured because the society of new orleans is advanced more than anywhere else in america.
Multicultural society
Jazz is played in New orleans, emotional undercurrent
- glimpse into the family home
"his dog to lick her" physicality
"Red hot! Red hot!"setting up a scene before the main characters come in.
The main Characters are rapidly established in context of money, relationships.
Binary of play is movement.
Blanche is static.
- "Her appearance is incongruous to this setting" Blanche is already established as a fish out of water.
Blanche doesn't know this society.
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