A Streetcar named Desire

3 ways Blanche flirts with Stan, in scene 1

o She asks him to button her dress

o She ask how she looks and how anyone ever thought she was attractive

o I cannot imagine any witch of a woman would cast a spell on

What clothes does Blanche wear when she arrived in New Orleans?

In a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl, white gloves and a hat

What clothes does Stanley wear when we first see him?

Roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes and carrying a blowing jacket (bright)

What animal is Blanche compared to?

a moth

What animal is Stanley compared to?

rooster

• What music plays when Stanley mentions that Blanche was married and Blanche replies that "the boy—the boy died!", do the other characters hear it?

Polka, and its in her head

What music plays throughout the first two scene?

Blue piano

Elysian Fields

Belle Reve

Blanche's family plantation that the family lost, where they grew up, (a French word meaning Beautiful Dream)

Yellow letter

letters that Blanche has in her trunk, old

Polish

how Stella describes Stanley

Cemeteries

Edger Allen Poe

Blanche compares the area to a place where he would live or write about

Laurel

Home town

Napoleonic code

Stanley explains it as a code which determines what belongs to a husband and what belongs to a wife (32)

Polka Music

played in Blanche's head

Blue piano

plays when Blanche is talking about the loss of her family, music played in bars and clubs, common New Orleans Music, Blues and jazz music, slow

Bathing

while Blanche was bathing Stanley goes through her stuff

Gaudy seed-bearer

Southern Belle

Soliloquy

only one person on stage when speaking

Dramatic Monologue

spoken to someone else

Interior Monologue

one character steps aside and speaks to the audience about the other characters and the characters don't know what they said

Stage directions

Aside

Complication

Inciting Incident

Denouement

tragedy/tragic flaw/ tragic hero

How does Stanley treat his poker pals? Is it consistent with his earlier characterization?

3. What is the purpose of the joke Steve tells about the old farmer (47)?

4. Stanley is abusive in this scene. Do you get the feeling this is his normal treatment of Stella, or is the violence in this scene out of the ordinary? Support your answer with a specific reference to the scene.

5. What simile describe es Stanley (59), when he calls for Stella near the end of the scene? Why do you think Williams chooses this comparison?

6. Why does Stella go back to Stanley?

7. What are some ways in which Blanche and Mitch seem compatible? If something develops between them, why would that be so good for Blanche?

8. What is implied by Mitch's cliché "All quiet on the Potomac now?" (60), when he returns to find Blanche sitting outside at the end of the scene?

9. When Blanche is first introduced in the play, Williams writes that she is "totally incongruous with her setting." How does the Poker Night scene reinforce the idea that Blanche is out of her element in New Orleans?

1. Contrast Blanche and Stella the morning after the Poker Night. Include how they look, how they feel, and their attitudes toward Stella's life in New Orleans.

Stella is calm and relaxed and Blanche is all nervous and angry, Stella is laying on the bed with her hand on her belly and the other holding colored comics. While Blanche appears to be sleepless and has her hands on her fist with white knuckles.

2. Who is Shep Huntleigh? Why does Blanche bring him up and suddenly attempt to contact him?

Shep is a wealthy man who Blanche met in Miami, she brings him up has a way to help them out of this way of life, and she is going to contacted him for help.

Blanche wants to get Stella out of the relationship but she says she's in nothing she wants to get out off, 48 hours later after not seeing her for 10 years it may or may not have the right to say this

4. The end of scene four marks a turning point in the play. What happens? What do you expect will change, as a result of this turning point? Explain

Blanche goes on telling Stella how much of an animal Stanley his and that he is not good enough for her and then he walks in and Stella gives him a big hug and he grins a sarcastic grin at Blanche because he knows how blanche feels and it hits that he might do something about him He also knows he has control over Stella

1. How does Blanche's mood change, after Stanley mentions a man named Shaw?

When Shaw is mentioned he is shocked and begins to answer carefully, when he brings up the flamingo house she is sitting on the edge of her set, nervous as can be consist nervousness

2. Why does Stanley bring Shaw up? What is Stanley's intention?

To make her uncomfortable and get to the bottom of what's going on, to dig in to her past

3. What does Blanche believe is necessary in order to win Mitch's interest? How does she feel she must act? Why do you think this is the case?

She feels she has to be prim and proper to earn his respect and that if she is too easy to get he won't want her, I think she thinks this because all the guys her father would have wanted her with she would have wanted to act this way

4. What is the purpose of Steve and Eunice's "interlude" throughout the scene?

The purpose is to show what life is like in the town and that valance seems to be common in the relationships around them and to show that the southern gentleman and southern belle relationship is not a thing around there

5. What do you think is the purpose of the scene with Blanche and the newspaper delivery boy?

To show she is desperate for affection, and that she is lonely

She was married when she was really young, and maybe she was thinking back to her young husband, he reminders her of him

What does the light symbolize?

truth , Blanche is scared of the truth

3 time light is mentioned at the end of scene 6

• Falling in love at 16 was a blinding light (Allen Grey) Positive

• The head light of the locomotive hit her as it went by cause her to hold her head and rock around

• Search light was turned off

• No light stronger than a kitchen candle