A Streetcar Named Desire S1 Flashcards
Elysian Fields [attenuates the atmosphere of……]
Decay
[New Orleans is a ….. where there is a relatively warm and easy …]
- Cosmopolitan city
- Intermingled of races
Stanley carries a […]. Which he […] at Stella - link to S4. Blanche says that Stanley comes “ Bearing the ….. home from the jungle”
1.Red-stained package from a butcher’s
2. Heaves
3. Raw meat
Blanche’s [appearance is …..]. Her white clothes [suggests a …]
- Incongruous to this setting
- Moth
Blanche sits [stiffly] and [slightly……..][ After a while the b… look goes out of her e….]. She drinks the whisky and [….. replaces the bottle]
- Hunched
- Blind, eyes
- Carefully
Blache: “Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this ….”
Merciless glare
Stella is Blanche’s “b… b….”
Blessed baby
Blanche: “I was on the verge of - …. …!”
Lunacy almost
Blanche: “ I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, ….” …. “ I’m not …..”
- I can’t be alone
- Very well
Stanley is a “d…… s…”
Different species
Stella: “ The best I could do was …., Blanche”
Make my own living
Stella: “Stop this h… o….”
Hysterical outburst
[Since earliest manhood the c… of his life has been p… with w…]. Stanley [sizes woman up at a glance, with ….]. Link to S6 Blanch thinks that “ perhaps in some … kind of way he-“ has sexual thoughts about her
- Centre, pleasure, women
- Sexual classification
- Perverse
Blanche is [drawing …. from], Stanley’s stare
Involuntarily back
Laurel is “not” in Stanley’s “…”
Territory
