A Streetcar Named Desire Quotes

Question 1

Scene 9- Blanche (hint: hotel)

Answer 1

‘Flamingo? No! Tarantula was the name of it!’

Question 2

Scene 9- Blanche (hint: truth vs reality)

Answer 2

‘I don’t want realism’

Question 3

Scene 1- Blanche (hint: appearance)

Answer 3

‘Daylight never exposed so total a ruin’

Question 4

Scene 4- Blanche (hint: famous speech)

Answer 4

‘(Stanley) eats like one, moves like one, talks like one’

‘survivor of the stone ages’

Question 5

Scene 4- Blanche (hint: desire)

Answer 5

‘Desire! - the rattletrap streetcar’, ‘It brought me here’

Question 6

Scene 4- Stage action/narration

Answer 6

‘he grins through the curtain at Blanche’

Question 7

Scene 7- Blanche (hint: lyrics)

Answer 7

‘it wouldn’t be make-believe, if you believed me’

Question 8

Scene 2- Stanley

Answer 8

‘the Kowalskis and Dubois have different notions’

Question 9

Scene 1- Stage description of Stanley

Answer 9

‘power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens’

Question 10

Scene 1- Stage description of Blanche

Answer 10

‘her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light’

Question 11

Scene 5- Blanche (hint: light)

Answer 11

‘shimmer and glow - put a - paper lantern over the light’