I take it for granted that you still have sufficient memory of Belle Reve to find this place and these poker players impossible to live with.
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 4. After growing up in their aristocratic home of Belle Reve, Blanche cannot understand how Stella can be happy with Stanley and his working class poker friends. In an effort to persuade Stella to leave Stanley, Blanche reminds her of her life before in the old South on their parents’ plantation.