Death

Question 1

Blanche on her struggle to keep belle reve

Answer 1

I stayed for it, fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!

Question 2

The route to Stella and Stanley’s apartment

Answer 2

Take a streetcar named desire…one called cemeteries…get off at Elysian Fields

Question 3

Blanche on funerals

Answer 3

Funerals are quite with pretty flowers

Question 4

Blanche’s grotesque memory of the death of her relatives

Answer 4

Struggle for breath and bleeding

Sometimes their breathing was horse and sometimes it rattles

Question 5

Blanche grave quote

Answer 5

Long parade to the graveyard

Question 6

Blanche’s self-destructive relationship with Stanley

Answer 6

Yes- I was flirting with your husband Stella!

Question 7

Symbol of Blanche’s long dead love

Answer 7

Love letters yellowing with antiquity

Question 8

Description of Elysian Fields

Answer 8

An atmosphere of decay

Mostly white frame, weathered grey

Question 9

Blanche cleansing herself of death

Answer 9

Blanche is bathing

Question 10

Blanche’s obsession with her looks- skeletal

Answer 10

I haven’t put on an ounce in ten years!

Question 11

Music of Blanche’s madness

Answer 11

Music of the Polka

The distant piano goes into a hectic breakdown

Question 12

Blanche remembers the death of women

Answer 12

Dying old women remembered their dead men

Bloodstained pillow slips

Question 13

Flowers for the dead

Answer 13

Flores para los Muertos

Question 14

Blanche feels death near by

Answer 14

Death…death was as close as you are

Question 15

Eros and Thanatos

Answer 15

Death…the opposite is desire

Question 16

Mr Shep Huntleigh

Answer 16

I received a telegram from an old admirer of mine

Somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening dress

Question 17

Blanche’s dignified exit

Answer 17

All the men spring to their feet

Question 18

Blanche imagines her death

Answer 18

In the blaze of summer- and into an ocean as blue as my first lovers eyes

Question 19

Blanche’s confusion at the end of the play

Answer 19

A look of sorrowful perplexity… as though all human experience shows in her face

Question 20

Stanley rapes Blanche and she enters a state of living death

Answer 20

He picks up her inert figure and carries her to the bed

Question 21

Blanche considers the fleeting nature of beauty

Answer 21

Physical beauty is passing… but beauty of the mind and richness of spirit… aren’t taken away

Question 22

Action that mimics Blanche’s own encounter with Stanley

Answer 22

A prostitute has rolled a drunkard

Question 23

The truth of Blanche’s past

Answer 23

The Tarantula Arms! That’s where I brought my victims

Question 24

Blanche and darkness

Answer 24

I like it dark, the dark is comforting to me

Question 25

Blanche’s dependence

Answer 25

I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers