Identity

Question 1

southern belle description

Answer 1

“Her appearance is incongruous to this setting.”

“There is something about her uncertain manner , as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth”

Question 2

summary of Stanley

Answer 2

“his appreciation of rough humour , his love of good drink and games, his car , his radio , everything that is his , that bears the emblem of the gaudy seed bearer.”

Question 3

Blanches name

Answer 3

“It’s a French name. It means woods and Blanche means white, so the two together mean white woods.”

Question 4

Dubois family ancestry

Answer 4

“We are French by extraction. Our first American ancestors were French Huguenots”

Question 5

Blanches status as a southern Belle further emphasized through knowledge of literature

Answer 5

“I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instil a bunch of bobbysoxers and drug store Romeos with reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!”

Question 6

Stanleys own identity as an American

Answer 6

I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.

Question 7

Blanche’s ‘down sizing’ ideas

Answer 7

Oh, I guess he’s just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now that we’ve lost Belle Reve.