stanley

Question 1

some people rarely touch it but it touches them often

Answer 1

stanley is the only person who isn’t fooled by blanches illusions and sees that she is hiding things from people

Question 2

i don’t go in for that stuff

Answer 2

blanche is begging for a compliment from stanley but he refuses to feed into her illusions/ego

Question 3

if i didn’t know you were my wife’s sister id get ideas about you

Answer 3

mixing sexual tension and violence

Question 4

you just blew your top stan(mitch)

Answer 4

use of nickname deescalates the seriousness of the situation
by not telling him he was in the wrong mitch gives approval to his actions via omission

Question 5

[over her head he grins through the curtains at blanche]

Answer 5

stanley winning the poker game- stella went back to stanley despite blanches concerns and pleads for her not to

Question 6

someone he met at a hotel called the flamingo

Answer 6

a subtle threat to blanche that he knows about her past
(where prostitution occurs)

Question 7

but sister blanche is no lily

Answer 7

jokingly comparing her to a nun
white pure delicate

Question 8

i’d like to have been in that office when dame blanche was called on the carpet

Answer 8

stanley has no care for the victim in the situation he is only happy he is beating blanche

Question 9

get OUT of the BATHROOM

Answer 9

removes blanche both physically and mentally out of her sanctuary - shows his influence/ power

Question 10

every man is king! and i am king around here

Answer 10

he views himself to be above everyone else because he is a man

Question 11

we’ve had this date with each other from the beginning

Answer 11

awful person
has been plotting to rape blanche for months - a way to seal his victory over her

Question 12

[no sound but that of stanley steadily shuffling the cards]

Answer 12

mocking blanche
shows that stanley is in control of the situation