Desire

Question 1

stanley column quote

Answer 1

I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it

Question 2

the product of stanley and stella’s desire

Answer 2

stella going to have a baby?

Question 3

stanley sexually dominates stella

Answer 3

lifts her off her feet

Question 4

stanley and stella reconcile

Answer 4

they come together with low, animal moans

Question 5

stella’s serenity

Answer 5

her eyes and lips have that almost narcoticised tranquility

Question 6

Stella accuses stanley

Answer 6

people like you abused her, and forced her to change

Question 7

Stella explains to Blanche why she stays with Stanley

Answer 7

there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark that sort of make everything else seem- unimportant

Question 8

Stella’s wedding night

Answer 8

on our wedding night…(he) rushed about the place smashing the lightbulbs

I was sort of thrilled by it

Question 9

Blanche accuses Stella of abandoning Belle Reve

Answer 9

Where were you? In bed with your polack!

Question 10

Blanche’s desire to be loved

Answer 10

you’re not glad to see me!

Question 11

red satin robe

Answer 11

blanche comes out of the bathroom in a red satin robe

Question 12

Blanche’s desire to be attractive

Answer 12

would you think it possible that i was once considered to be- attractive?

Question 13

Blanche’s desire to be cleansed of the past

Answer 13

Blanche? Bathing

Question 14

Blanche’s past catches up with her

Answer 14

the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche

Question 15

Blanche’s desire puts her at risk

Answer 15

I was flirting with your husband Stella

Question 16

Blanche’s dress gets ruined

Answer 16

right on my pretty white dress

Question 17

the foil to death

Answer 17

the opposite is desire

Question 18

Blanche attacks Stella’s desire

Answer 18

Brutal desire! Just desire

Question 19

Blanche’s desire to be young

Answer 19

young, young, young, young

I’ve got to be good and keep my hands off children

Question 20

blanche talks about her victims

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Blanche talks about how to deal with men like Stanley

Answer 21

The only way to live with such a man is to go to bed with him!
Someone you go out with once, twice, three times if the devil is with you

Question 22

Blanche’s journey to New Orleans

Answer 22

take a streetcar named desire…one called cemetries…get off at- Elysian Fields

Question 23

Stella defends her desire and renounces Blanche

Answer 23

I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley

no matter what happens you have to keep going

Question 24

musical motifs for desire

Answer 24

low tone clarinet moans
blue piano
rhumba music over the radio

Question 25

Stanley and Stella after Stanley hits her

Answer 25

There is a murmur of thunder as they go slowly back upstairs in a tight embrace

Question 26

Blanche is violated by stanley a final time

Answer 26

siezes the paper lantern tearing it off the light bulb

Question 27

Stanley is victorious in the end

Answer 27

this game is seven card stud

Question 28

Stanley’s animalism

Answer 28

animal joy in his being

Question 29

Stanley feels inhibited by Blanche’s presence

Answer 29

not in front of your sister

Question 30

Stanley and the inevitably of him and Blanche

Answer 30

We had this date with eachother from the beginning

Question 31

Stanley hits Stella

Answer 31

There is the sound of a blow

Question 32

Stanley’s pyjamas

Answer 32

The silk pyjamas I wore on my wedding night!

Question 33

Coloured lights

Answer 33

get those coloured lights going

Question 34

Stanley dreaming of Blanche leaving

Answer 34

God honey it’s gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way we used to

Question 35

Stanley’s secual prowess in stage directions

Answer 35

gaudy seed-bearer

he sizes up woman up at a glance, with sexual classifications

Question 36

forshadowing of stanley raping blanche

Answer 36

jerked out armfuls of dresses

Question 37

stanley exerting his sexual dominance over blanche

Answer 37

he starts to remove his shirt