Streetcar Quotes

Question 1

Mitch - poker

Answer 1

Poker shouldn’t be played in a house with women - masculine spaces

Question 2

Stanley - bathroom

Answer 2

Get out the bathroom - feminine space

Question 3

Stanley performative and temporary submission of power

Answer 3

[falls to his knees]

Question 4

Flowers

Answer 4

Flores para los muertos

Question 5

French Cleanliness scene 11

Answer 5

S ‘They are from the French market.’ B ‘That doesn’t mean they’re washed’

Question 6

Blanche - Varsouvianna

Answer 6

M ‘The varsouviana?’ [a distant revolver shot is heard, Blanche seems relieved] B ‘There now, the shot! It always stops after that.’

Question 7

Cards

Answer 7

[Stanley steadily shuffling his cards] ‘This game is a seven-card stud’

Question 8

Blanche fall of old america

Answer 8

Fitting that Belle Reve should finally be this bunch of old papers in your big capable hands.’

Question 9

Stanley - card imagery scene 8

Answer 9

What do you think you are? A pair of Queens? Remember what Huey Long said - ‘Every man is a king!’ And I am the King around here’

Question 10

Introducing Blanche

Answer 10

There was something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth

Question 11

Stanley - package

Answer 11

catch! … meat!
[he heaves a package at her]

Question 12

Stanley - stature

Answer 12

A master sergeant in the engineers’ corps’

Question 13

Stanley - slamming

Answer 13

[he seizes the atomizer and slams it down]
[He hurls a plate to the floor]

Question 14

Stanley - insecurity

Answer 14

What i am is one hundred percent American … so don’t ever call me a Polack

Napoleonic code

Question 15

Stanley - brotherhood

Answer 15

You’re goddamn right I told him! … let my best friend get caught

Question 16

Stanley - columns

Answer 16

I pulled you down off those columns and how you loved it

Question 17

Stanley—intolerance

Answer 17

Quit your blubber

Question 18

Blanche - charm

Answer 18

a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion

Question 19

Blanche - lights glare

Answer 19

Turn that over-light off! … I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare

Question 20

Blanche accusing over Belle Reve

Answer 20

let the place go? Where were you. In bed with your - Polack!

Question 21

Blanche about Stanley’s savagery

Answer 21

There’s something downright bestial about him
‘Sub-human’

Question 22

Blanche - costume

Answer 22

[white suit with a fluffy bodice] - performative status + innocence

Question 23

Blanche stage direction light

Answer 23

[Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light]

Question 24

Stanley observing alcohol consumption using light

Answer 24

he holds the bottle to the light to observe its depletion

Question 25

Blanche lying about her alcohol consumption

Answer 25

'one's my limit'

Question 26

Stanley's violence

Answer 26

[heaven splitting violence

Question 27

Dramaturgy about the doctor

Answer 27

[The unmistakable aura of the state institution with its cynical detachment]

Question 28

dramaturgy scene 11

Answer 28

The atmosphere of the kitchen is now the same raw, lurid one of the disastrous poker night.

Question 29

Stanley - paper lantern

Answer 29

Seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the light-bulb

Question 30

Dramaturgy of Stella and Stanley's reunion - scene 3

Answer 30

They come together with low animal moan

Question 31

Stella - self deception

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Stella - anagnorisis

Answer 32

Oh God what have I done to my sister

Question 33

Stanlet rape

Answer 33

[She sinks to her knees. He picks up her inert figure and carries her to the bed]

Question 34

What Blanche is punished for

Answer 34

intamacies with strangers

Question 35

Blanche's insanity

Answer 35

Lurid reflections ... shadows are of a grotesque and menacing form.

Question 36

New Orleans dramaturgy

Answer 36

relatively easy inter-mingling of races

Question 37

Elysian fields

Answer 37

Ruffish charm

Question 38

Blanche's reason for her sexuality

Answer 38

men don't - don't admit your existance until you're making love to them

Question 39

Stanley's costume

Answer 39

[denim work clothes]

Question 40

Blanche's jewellery

Answer 40

Stanley: A crown for an empress! Blanche: A rhinestone tiara she wore to a costume ball

Question 41

Blanche's understanding and experience

Answer 41

I have an idea she doesn't understand you as well as I do I'm not young and vulnerable anymore

Question 42

Blanche's ideals

Answer 42

old fashioned ideals

Question 43

Mitch - light

Answer 43

I don't think I have ever seen you in the light

Question 44

Blanche - biblical allusion

Answer 44

Casting her pearls before swine'

Question 45

Blanche - sickness

Answer 45

I can't be alone. Because - as you must have noticed - I'm not very well

Question 46

Mitch is Blanche's saviour

Answer 46

sometimes theres God so quickly

Question 47

Paper moon

Answer 47

washed up like poison - fragile feminity

Question 48

Migrant culture

Answer 48

Red hots!

Question 49

Blanche about the paper boy

Answer 49

little bit of eternity honey lamb

Question 50

Blanche - reason for the loss of Belle Reve

Answer 50

Ancestors' 'epic fornications'

Question 51

Blanche - children

Answer 51

I've got to keep my hands off children Seventeen year old boy - she'd gotten mixed up with

Question 52

Stanley beating Stella

Answer 52

There is the sound of a blow.