A Streetcar Named Desire

Question 1

Summarise the events of Chapter 1?

Answer 1

We Stanley and Stella, they go bowling. Then we meet Blanche who’s trying to find Stella’s house,Eunice let’s her in and goes to find Stella. The sisters reunite, catch up. Blanche insults New Orleans, they butt heads. Blanche opens up about mental health, Belle Reve. Stanley and Blanche meet, awkwardly converse.

Question 2

Analyse Chap 1?

Answer 2

We’re introduced into Stanley’s characteristics, in work rags carding raw meat, animalistic, shows him as a crude and aggressive man. Sets tone of brutality and realise which the delicate Blanche is about to enter into. Williams uses Freudian sexual symbols, meat, bowling balls and pins, phallic symbols. Blanche wears white, moth-like appearance, purity to hide her inner sins, moth drawn to the light, she prefers dim illusionary world of semi-darkness. Blanche lies to Stanley about not drinking - inability to tell the truth, desire to be different from what she is.

Question 3

Summarise Chap 2?