and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr. Kowalski.

[img][/img] They just don't make 'em like that anymore, now do they Chris?

I didn't get that from it at all. Was that one of thepoints? Who was a different class? They were all middle class/lower class, weren't they?

I thought it was about sensitive people & how they buckle under the weight of the cruelty that life can be (Blanche), and how cruel and selfish people can be (Stanley). I thought Blanche had delusions of grandeur because of her mental breakdown...her inability to cope with life. Stella copes....but she's a doormat. Stanley copes by trying to bend life and those around him to fit what he will accept.

family plantation. That's why Stanley was going on and on about Blanche putting on airs.

Blanche shot and killed her gay husband and that is why she ended up as, well, the painted lady from Oriole.

In the play, Stanley rapes Blanche and Stella doesn't leave him like she does at the end of the movie.

Blanche, and Frances McDormand as Stella. It was great! I had never read the play nor seen the movie so I didn't know anything about it. It was a class trip with my high school English class.

One correction I believe--I think Blanche's husband committed, not her killing him.

but I read somebody saying that Kim Hunter deserved her Oscar just based on that scene alone. I concur.