loneliness

Question 1

Blanches response to her sister enquiry of whether she had ever ridden a streetcar

Answer 1

“It brought me here. - Where im not wanted and where im ashamed to be…”

Question 2

Blanche to her sister , dependence

Answer 2

“I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, i can’t be alone!

Question 3

Blanche makes some hint to the gossip to Blanche

Answer 3

“I’ve run for protection ,Stella , from under one leaky roof to another leaky roof - because it was storm - all storm, and i was - caught in the centre…people don’t see you - men don’t - don’t even admit your existence unless they are making love to you. And you’ve got to have your existence admitted by someone”

Question 4

Blanche and Mitch on his mother and their own loneliness

Answer 4

You will be lonely when she passes on won’t you?

I understand what that is

Question 5

Blanche brings up parallels with Mitch

Answer 5

“You said you needed somebody. Well, I needed somebody too.”

Question 6

Mitch questions Blanche on the gossip

Answer 6

“Intimacies with strangers was all i seemed able to fill my empty heart with … I think it was panic , just panic , that drove me from one to another , hunting for some protection”

Question 7

Blanches madness at the end of the play, retreats in panic

Answer 7

“I don’t know you - i don’t know you. i want to be - left alone -please!

Question 8

Blanche and the doctor

Answer 8

“Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”