Streetcar Named Desire Flashcards
(67 cards)
Who sells flowers for the dead?
The Mexican woman
Who pities her sister and urges her husband to be nice to her and compliment her appearance?
Stella
Who believes in the Napoleonic Code especially when he thinks he’s missed out on something?
Stanley
Who is the Hispanic man who plays poker with the boys?
Pablo
Who is the wealthy oil man who is more a distant memory of a lonely and desperate woman than he is a possible love interest and savior?
Shep Huntleigh
Who is the man - often called Pollack by his sister-in-law - King of his castle?
Stanley
Who comes to collect a deranged woman in scene 11 - and treats her like a lady?
The doctor
Who owns the building in which the majority of the play takes place - his wife threatens to call the police after he gets physical with her?
Steve
Who collects money for the newspaper?
The newspaper boy
Who lives with his mother?
Mitch
Who left her upbringing to marry a man whom she felt a strong passion for?
Stella
Who visits her sister in New Orleans all the way from Laurel, Mississippi?
Blanche
Who,lives upstairs at the Elysian Field House - takes her friend in sometimes when her husband gets too rough (like after the poker game)?
Eunice
Who comes to collect a deranged woman in scene 11 - is very matter of fact and gruff - “These fingernails will have to be trimmed”
Nurse
Who works at the factory - is a single man - believed to be different from the others - according to Blanche?
Mitch
Who wants to go back “to the way they was” befor his wife’s sister came to stay?
Stanley
Who packs her sister’s things at the end of the play and avoids telling her the truth about where she is really going?
Stella
Who reminds Blanche of a young boy she was involved with - at a high school she was teaching at - after she request and is granted a kiss from?
The newspaper boy
Who relies on dim lighting, afternoon dates and paper lateens to hide her age?
Blanche
Who is fooled by a women claiming to be younger than she really was - he is disappointed, heart-broken and angry at the end of the play?
Mitch
Who is the upstairs neighbor who has to hel restrain Stanley after he hits his wife in scene 2 - after the poker game?
Steve
Who is the old beau of Blanche’s whom she believes will sent her and Stella up in a shop somewhere so that they can get away from New Orleans and her sister’s husband?
Shep
Who travels out of town for work from time to time - maybe for a couple of days or even a whole week. When he is gone for long stretches his wife goes crazy without him?
Stanley
Who descends from barely hanging on to sanity to being committed by the end of the play?
Blanche
