Streetcar

Id

Focuses on pleasure and immediate gratification

Stanley

Who is Id?

Superego

Focuses on morality and restricting the Id’s impulses

Blanche

Who is superego?

Ego

Balances the desires of the Id and Superego, mediating between the two.

Stella

Who is ego?

Reveals his sensitivity and kindness

What is significant about Mitch caring about his sick mother?

Polka

What represents Blanche’s past?

Innocence

 What do the clothes Blanche first wears represent?

Victory

What intangible (and one-worded) thing is Stella to Blanche and Stanley?

Ape

Stanley breaking the plates and radio show him turning into a(n) ____?

Sex

Why does Stella stay with Stanley / why are they still in a relationship?

Eunice

Who brings the grapes in Scene 11?

Fate

What does the streetcar named desire, cemeteries and elysian fields represent?

It parallels the plot

 What is the significance of the last line of the play?

Illusions

 What is the ¨death¨ of Blanche?

The Doctor

Who uses kindness in the play?

Ape

What best represents Stanley

Mediator

What best represents Stella

paper lantern

What best represents Blanche

Self-worth

What is Blanche ¨nothing¨ without?

Bathing

How does Blanche ¨clean¨ herself?

To become pure

Why does Blanche bath so often?