Streetcar Critics Flashcards
Tennessee William - what plays about
“ravishment of the tender… by …modern society”
Galloway - blanche is a moth
Blanches desires “draw her to stanley, like a moth to a light”
Hawkins - about Stanley
Stanley “needs no motivation for anything he does”
Kronenberger - blanche lying
Blanche “lies to the world because she must lie to herself”
Chapman - blanche fantasies
Blanche takes “refuge in a magical life she has invented for herself”
Bloom - sympathy for Stanley
Stanley “cannot be blamed for protecting his marriage against the force that would destroy it”
Fang - women relying on men
“if women place their hope and fortune on men, their oppressed and subordinate status can never be changed”
Duerre - blanche holds on
Blanche “attempts to maintain her past luxurious life by holding onto and creating new desires rather than adjusting to her reality”
Fang - blanches dependance on men
“men are always the ones to whom she resorts”
Costa - masculinity
Williams play shows a “weak and unadjusted masculinity”
Lart - Stanley’s role in blanches desruction
Stanley is an “agent of blanches destruction”
Onyett - blanche in society
Blanche is a “social outcast”
Galloway - nobody wins
“everyone loses something”
Berkman - Stella and blanches relationship
“Stella must flatter her or lie to her in order to get along with her”
Berkman - why blanche is illusionary
Blanche lives in illusion “in order to bring herself to tolerate the situation in which she now finds herself”
