I’ve enjoyed reading your work over the last few days, troops.  This morning’s highlights were Greg’s observation that Mitch and Stanley only become sexually aggressive when Blanche is most vulnerable and her promiscuous past is revealed – highlighting the misogynistic/sexist/chauvinist society in which men feel that women with a history of sexual activity deserve to be punished through sexual violence; and Erin’s assertion that Streetcar suggests the truth of the world is that it is rough and brutal, and that we, like Blanche to an extent, romanticise it in order to believe it is kinder than it is.   Both compelling points.

Keep going, troops, and see you Tuesday when you can pick up marked work from me.   Keep refining your detailed explanations of texts’ central concerns.

Regards, MrT