d sex with a seventeen-year-old student who's father found out and there was "practically a town ordinance passed against her"(671). Blanche was forced to leave the town she had grown up in was left with nowhere to go she went to see Stella and Stanley.
             The final stop in Blanche's journey to see Stella is in Elysian Fields. Elysian Fields is the place of the living dead in ancient lore, the inhabitants of which are described in book six of the Aenied:
             "They are the souls," answered his father Anchises,
             "Whose destiny it is a second time
             To live in the flesh and there by the waters of Lethe
             They drink the draught that sets them free from care
             And blots out their memory." (Homer)
             This is the place Blanche has come to start her new life and she does a very good job of filling the role. Throughout the play she drinks more and more to drown the sorrows of her past.
             In order to emphasize Blanche's weakness and fragility, Williams contrasts her to Stanley. Stanley is Stella's "common" husband of Polis
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