It looks to me like you have been swindled, baby, and when you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code I’m swindled too. And I don’t like to be swindled.
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 2. Stanley tells Stella that Blanche has "swindled" her out of her Belle Reve inheritance, which Blanche claims has been lost to the family. Stanley questions the fact that Blanche has produced no documents or deed of sale to show a sale or transfer of the family plantation. If Blanche has swindled Stella, then she has cheated him too, he reasons as he claims his rights to any property owned by his wife.