Scenes

Question 1

Scene 1

Answer 1

• establishing characters and setting
• Blanche’s arrival
• Blanch criticises Stella’s place of living and decision to leave Belle Reve
• Stanley and Blanche’s first (and flirtatious) conversation
• Blanche reveals her young husband died

Question 2

Scene 2

Answer 2

• Stanley angry about the suspicion surrounding Belle Reve(wondering where the money is), leads to tension between him and Blanche
• Stanley confronts Blanch about the missing papers an she avoids his questions
• suspicion surrounding the love letters
• Stella’s pregnancy revealed

Question 3

Scene 3

Answer 3

The Poker Night
- Stanley getting increasingly more frustrated with Blanche for making noise
- Relationship between Blanch and Mitch established
- Stanley hits Stella
- Blanche is horrified
-Stanley calls for Stella who has fled to Eunice upstairs an he returns to him

Question 4

Scene 4

Answer 4

• Blanche confronts Stella for returning to Stanley and suggests she should ‘get out’ from her ‘desperate situation’
• Stanley overhears Blanche’s insults
• Stella chooses Stanley

Question 5

Scene 5

Answer 5

• It is now August
• Stanley asks Blanche if she knows Shaw and after he leaves Blanche turns to Stella for information
• Blanche is concerned about her looks and age
• Blanche kisses a teenage paperboy and reveals she has done so before

Question 6

Scene 6

Answer 6

-Set after an unsuccessful date between Blanche and Mitch, who has to ask to kiss her
- Blanche implies that her husband was gay and committed suicide after she expressed her disgust
- Mitch comforts her

Question 7

Scene 7

Answer 7

Blanche’s birthday (September)
- Stanley tells Stella the truth about Blanche (how she slept around after Allan’s death) an that she got mixed up with a seventeen year old boy

Question 8

Scene 8

Answer 8

Blanche’s birthday party
- Very tense and awkward atmosphere
- Stanley has finally ah enough of all the name calling
- Stanley has bought Blanche a bus ticket to Laurel
-Stella taken to hospital for baby

Question 9

Scene 9

Answer 9

• Mitch confronts Blanche about her past and tries to come onto her
• Blanche asks Mitch to marry her and he refuses with disgust

Question 10

Scene 10

Answer 10

• Blanche has been drinking a lot and has dressed up in posh but worn clothes
• Stanley is in a good mood
• Stanley then refuse to take Blanche’s BS and she freaks out
• Implied rape of Blanche whilst she is unconscious

Question 11

Scene 11

Answer 11

• Blanche tells Stella that Stanley raped her
• Blanche is taken to a mental hospital