fantasy vs reality (illusions)

Question 1

What Blanche wants

Answer 1

“I don’t want realism, I want magic!”

Question 2

Blanche’s perceptive comment about charm

Answer 2

After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion.

Question 3

The description of the kitchen in scene 3 for the poker night

Answer 3

The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colors of childhood’s spectrum.

Question 4

Blanche telling her pet peeves to Mitch

Answer 4

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action

Question 5

Blanche talking to the Evening Star boy

Answer 5

Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the Arabian Nights?

Question 6

Blanche fantasising about her and Mitch in France

Answer 6

We are going to be very Bohemian. We are going to pretend that we are sitting in a little artists’ café on the Left Bank in Paris!

Question 7

Blanche talking about her husband’s suicide

Answer 7

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this–kitchen–candle…

Question 8

Blanche singing in the bathtub

Answer 8

It’s only a paper moon, Just as phony as it can be–But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me!

Question 9

Stella explaining her decision to have Blanche sent to a mental institution to Eunice

Answer 9

I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley.

Question 10

Blanche as the poker players stand up on her exit in scene 11

Answer 10

Please don’t get up. I’m only passing through.

Question 11

Stanley’s parting words to Blanche

Answer 11

You left nothing here but spilt talcum and old empty perfume bottles–unless it’s the paper lantern you want to take with you. You want the lantern?

Question 12

Blanche speaking to the doctor

Answer 12

Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.