A Streetcar Named Desire - Key Quotes by Scene

Question 1

1 Blanche 5

Answer 1

‘delicate beauty must avoid a strong light’
‘moth’
‘incongruous’
‘I will not be seen in this merciless glare’
‘I’m going to be honestly critical’

Question 2

1 Stanley 3

Answer 2

‘meat’
‘animal joy…gaudy seed bearer…sexual classifications’ etc
‘love of everything that is his’

Question 3

1 Stella 3

Answer 3

‘I cry on his lap like a baby’
‘Don’t holler at me like that’
B. ‘You came to New Orleans. I stayed’

Question 4

1 Stagecraft 4

Answer 4

New Orleans LO - deep south/multicultural/trad.french influence waning.
‘Elysian fields’
‘faded white stairs’
‘atmosphere of decay’

Question 5

2 Blanche 3

Answer 5

‘some buttons in back’
‘I was flirting with you husband’
‘grandfathers and husbands and uncles and brother exchanged the land for their epic fornications’

Question 6

2 Stella 2

Answer 6

sent to ‘the drug store’
‘my head is spinning!’

Question 7

2 Stanley 3

Answer 7

‘Napoleonic Code’
‘the Kowalskis and the DuBois have different notions’
‘shoves it roughly open’

Question 8

2 Stagecraft 1

Answer 8

blue piano

Question 9

3 Stanley

Answer 9

‘cards chips and whisky’
‘nobody’s going to get up so don’t be worried’
‘they speak lovingly to him’

Question 10

3 Blanche

Answer 10

‘in a tone of deep sympathy’
‘literary heritage’
‘I can’t stand a naked light bulb any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action’
‘Stella watch out - he’s –’