A Streetcar Named Desire S3 Flashcards
Introduction of poker night: [They are men at the p.. of their p…. m…., as coarse and direct and p…. as the p…. c….]
- Peak, physical manhood
- Powerful, primary colours
Stanley when Mitch goes to the bathroom: “Hurry back and we’ll fix you a s…”
Suger-tit
Blanche to the men: “Please d… g… up.” Foreshadows S11 where she says “Please d.. g.. up. I’m only p… t..”
1 & 2. Don’t get
3. Passing through
When Blanch asks to join the game: “You could not. Why don’t y… w… go up and sit with Eunice?”
You women
Stella after Stanley [wacks] her thigh: “It makes me so m.. when he does that in f… of p…”
- Mad
- Front, people
Blanche about Mitch: “That one seems - s… to the others”
Superior
Stella about success: “Stanley’s the o… one of his crowd that’s likely to get a….”
“It’s a d.. that he has.”
- One, anywhere
- Drive
American Dream, an illusion Stanley subscribes to.
Stella’s robe [light ….. kimono]
Blue
Alligning herself with Stanley and the masculine modern America.
Blanche [has slipped on the d.. … … wrapper]
Dark Red Satin
Blanche and her knowledge of literature: “My favurite s… by Mrs B…!”
- Sonnet
- Browning
Blanche: “S… people have such d…, s….. atachments.”
- Sick
- Deep, sincere
Blanche about her ancestors: “We are F…. by extractions…. F… H….”
- French
- French Huguenots
Blache about the “little coloured paper lantern”: “P… it over the l… b…!”
- Put
- Light bulb
Stella after Stanley [stalks fiercely] and [tosses the instrument out of the window]: “D.. - d…..- a… thing, you!”
- Drunk, drunk
- Animal
Stanley beating Stella: [ There is the s.. of a b…]
- Sound
2.Blow
Men to Stanley: [They speak q… and l…. to him]
“My b… okay!”
- Quietly, lovingly
- boy’s
Stanley after realising that Stella left: [He b.. into s… Then he goes to the phone and dials, s.. s… with s…]
[B… his wife’s name]
- Breaks, sobs
- Still shuddering, sobs
- Bellows
Shows how similarly to Blanche’s pretense of chastity, he too is living in an illusion where he sees himslef as an ultra masculine man who is always in control.
When they reunite, Stella’s [eyes go …. with t…… ]
- Blind
- Tenderness
Blanche when she looks for Stella: [She looks right and left as if for …..]
Sanctuary
Mitch: “They’re .. about ……..”
- Crazy
- Each other
Blanch to Mitch: “Thank you for being ….. I need ……. now.”
- Kind
- Kindness