A Streetcar Named Desire

Scene 9

Why is the Mexican woman selling? How might this be significant?

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a blind Mexican woman selling "gaudy tin flowers that lower-class Mexicans display at funerals" continually sings out in Spanish, "Flowers, flowers, flowers for the dead." Blanche is reminded of her dead husband as well as her life which she feels id dead.

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