critics streetcar

Question 1

Elia Kazan
stella salvation

Answer 1

“Stella is a refined girl who has found a kind of salvation or realization but at a terrific price”

Question 2

J.M. McGLinn
stella values

Answer 2

“Stella ignores the needs of others and eventually adopts her own illusion. Life with Stanley-sex with Stanley-is her highest value. Her refusal to accept Blanche’s story of the rape is a commitment to self-preservation rather than love…”

Question 3

Commentary by Patricia Hern and Michael hooper

Answer 3

Blanche holds the Wildean belief that “Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art”

Question 4

Helen Deutsch
women

Answer 4

‘Women were masochists- provoke the abuse and enjoyed it’

Question 5

John S. Bak
class

Answer 5

‘Stanley is the victim of Blanche’s onslaughts against hiss name’

Question 6

Mary Ann Corrigan
Strength in theatrical devices

Answer 6

‘Williams uses costuming, props, and lighting to convey the emotional strength of his characters’

Question 7

Williams
stella

Answer 7

‘[Stella] passivity is her key quality’

Question 8

Langland
southern belle

Answer 8

‘The Southern belle is both a sex object and a woman on a pedestal’