Chapter 11

Question 1

What happens in this chapter?

Answer 1

Poker night
Stella doubts her choice of not believing Blanche but knows she has no other option.
Blanche is taken away by the doctors.
Stella cries out and Mitch is furious over what has happened.
They continue playing Poker.

Question 2

‘Don’t ever believe it. Life got to go on’ Analysis

Answer 2

Forced to live in illusion due to her inability to be a new mother in 1940’s New America.

Question 3

‘And ill be buried at sea sewn up in a clean white sack in the blaze of summer as blue as my first lover’s eyes’ Analysis

Answer 3

Allen presence forever felt by Blanche.
White signifies her purity.

Question 4

‘The varsouviana is filtered into weird distortion accompanied by cries and noises of jungle’ Analysis

Answer 4

Polka and primitive trauma underwent through Stanley amalgamated in her mind to create a state of instability and chaos.

Question 5

‘He lunges and strikes at Stanley’ Analysis

Answer 5

Mitch uncharacteristically gets physical.

Question 6

‘Find the opening of her blouse’ Analysis

Answer 6

Deceptive and hypocrite as he’s the source of pain.
Does the only thing he knows how to which is comfort her sexually.