Belle Reeve
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Belle Reeve is the decaying ancestral plantation home of Blanche DuBois’s family in Tennessee Williams’s play "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional estate
ⓘ
fictional location ⓘ plantation ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Streetcar Named Desire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Blanche DuBois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stella Kowalski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | DuBois family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Tennessee Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
ancestral home of the DuBois family
ⓘ
decaying plantation ⓘ |
| dramaticRole | offstage setting influencing plot ⓘ |
| etymologyProposed | may derive from French for “beautiful dream” or “beautiful shore” ⓘ |
| fictionalGeographicContext | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext | Southern Gothic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lossReason | debts and mortgages ⓘ |
| lostBy | Blanche DuBois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | play ⓘ |
| mentionedInAct | Act I of A Streetcar Named Desire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
symbol of decline and decay
ⓘ
symbol of lost Southern gentility ⓘ |
| ownership | DuBois family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire ⓘ |
| symbolizesForCharacter |
Blanche DuBois’s lost status
ⓘ
Blanche DuBois’s nostalgia for the past ⓘ |
| themeRelation |
Old South vs. New South
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illusion vs. reality ⓘ loss and dispossession ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | post–American Civil War South ⓘ |
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