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It's downright annoying and does less for me without a proper intellectual adversary.
You know what, based on your line of reasoning, try All About Eve next. It might be right up your ballpark.
Or alternatively, something like Philidelpiha Story.
Intellectual heavyweights dueling with their emotions and lifestyles through awesome dialogue.
If she was a proper representative of her culture rather than an exile I'd say that was true. But maybe she is supposed to represent some of its problematic aspects, in the sense that her failure to maintain the right virtues (beauty, chastity) ultimately dooms her.
It wasn't yesterday that I saw Streetcar, but if memory serves, I did read the narrative more as an criticism of the "Southern Belle" cultural arctype, which Blanche's embodies.
I'm not sure what you mean by calling her an exile. That she's lost her riches? But the point of Streetcar is to illustrate how such an particular upper-class mentality is not glamorous or likable, that in fact breeds into stereotypes and antagonism about ethnic groups and lower-class people. The conflict Belche has between herself and... everything else is that her Southern Belle persona tunes her into looking astray at so many people.
It's not that Bella represents problematic aspects of the Southern Belle, it's that the Southern Belle in-and-of-itself is a problematic, antagonistic mentality -- and the only situation in which it can trive is the affluent upper-classes where you don't have to deal with anyone that isn't of your own kind.