Their relationship throughout the play is strained; it is in the passage after Blanche's confession of the loss of Belle Reve that Stella starts to understand what actually happened and places Stanley above her. ... "Sons & Lovers" has an oedipal theme between Paul and Gertrude, the hatred for his father could be interpreted as a key element to the complex. ...

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