Blanche

Question 1

Sister

Answer 1

“Sister Blanche is no lily”

Question 2

Stanley ‘The first time I laid eyes on him I thought to myself…’

Answer 2

‘that man is my executioner! That man will destroy me.’

Question 3

incongruous

Answer 3

Her appearance is incongruous… white suit.’

Question 4

Scarlet woman - Revelation 17

Answer 4

‘red satin robe’

Question 5

kindness - 2x

Answer 5

‘Thank you for being so kind! I need kindness now.’

‘I have always relied on the kindness of strangers.’

Question 6

Star sign

Answer 6

‘Virgo is the Virgin.’

Question 7

shot

Answer 7

‘there now, a shot! It always stops after that.’

Question 8

Tarantula

Answer 8

‘The Tarantula Arms… That’s where I brought my victims.’

Question 9

Modern tragedy - past prevents freedom

Answer 9

‘tied an old tin can to the tail of the kite.’

Question 10

Virgin Madonna

Answer 10

‘It’s Della Robbia blue… old Madonna pictures.’

Question 11

Bathing

Answer 11

“I take hot baths for my nerves. Hydro-therapy, they call it”.

Question 12

lantern

Answer 12

‘cries out as if the lantern was herself’.

Question 13

Intimacies with strangers

Answer 13

‘intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with…”.

Question 14

Blanche as a girl

Answer 14

“But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.”