StreetCar Named Desire Notes

20 questions of Multiple Choice:

5 short essays:

Stanley is controlling , which we see when he yells at Blanch to get the papers of the lost property, but he can also be

Blanche: Uses water and bathing to purify herself. (Baptism)

Stanley and Stella going through Blanche’s trunk while Stanley goes off on Blanche.

Lamp Shade: Represent her hiding her lies and her aging features. Mitch helps her with the shade, and at the end he was the to expose her of her lies.

Blanche has regression and arrested development.

Mitch Vs Shep:

Before Blanche met Mitch, she met Shep. Shep was a former suitor for Blanche. She met him a year before going to New Orleans vacationing in Miami. Shep is already married but Blanche believes that he will save her from finance troubles.

Mitch is not married. At first believe in Blanche’s lies and at the end exposed her for the lies she said and deceitful person she is.

To Blanche, Shep is used a way for finance help and escape. With Mitch its because she likes him and want some desire from him.

Blanche’s suitcase:

Stanley was trying to find dirt that Blanche stole Belle Reve from Stella. And use the Napoleonic Code saying that the wife’s property is the husbands, and believes that Belle Reve property was stolen from Stella by Blanche, meaning it was stolen from Stanley by Blanche.

The Last Line:

“The game is seven card stud” - a poker reference back in scene three, where Stanley and his pals are playing poker in his apartment. It was used in a way that Stanley and his pals are continuing the poker game from scene three and acting like nothing happened in the last few days with Blanche.

Bathing

Water used as a way to cleanse. Blanche uses it to cleanse herself a lot because of the what the she did. But she still does those same bad acts. Also, she wants to purified as well to show that she is lady-like.

Regression:

Blanche has regression and arrested development. She feels anxious with the music of The Varsouviana Polka that she hears a lot through out the play. It was the memory of Allen Gray, a young guy she married and killed himself. Blanche misses young love and sexual desire for young men and boys

Hierarchy of Whiteness

French people are more elite, and sees some white people less then them, like the polish.

Blanche is French elite and Stanley is a Polish worker'/immigrant

“White Woods”

Blanche Dubois means “White Woods”. She is white and white wood is a elegant color and shows purification

Stanley is Character trait , which we see when Evidence, but he can also be Another Character trait and we can possibly understand this conflict by Another Evidence.

Stanley:

Alpha Male

     yells at Blanch

      Abuse Ponder over Stella

      leader of friend group

Insecure b/c of poverty & Polish Americans ethnic background

Stella:

Values being settled/pragatic
values sex
passive(takes things - doesn’t defend yourself)
Sent her sister to the psych ward

Blanche

Haunted by here past
Allan Gray had an affair (feels guilty for past)
Insecure about age
brings other people down to prop herself up
Drinking problem
Displaces energy onto stella
acts perfect(over compensation)

Mitch

Considered abusing Blanche
Forgets about Blanche at the end
only believes Stanely