Mortality

Question 1

Blanches arrival to the apartment

Answer 1

They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at — Elysian Fields!

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Question 2

Blanche on the deaths as belle reve

Answer 2

All of those deaths! The long parade to the graveyard! Father, mother! Margaret, that dreadful way! So big with it, it couldn’t be put in a coffin! But had to be burned like rubbish!

Scene 1

Question 3

Blanches opinion on Stanley

Answer 3

The first time I laid eyes on [Stanley] I thought to myself, that man is my executioner! That man will destroy me.

Scene 6

Question 4

Blanche on the death of Allan

Answer 4

After the death of Allan — intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty hearty with.

Scene 9

Question 5

Blanche on how death makes her feel

Answer 5

Death—I used to sit here and she used to sit over there and death was as closer as you are… We didn’t even admit we had ever heard of it.

Scene 9

Question 6

Duchess on death, and how life is like a play

Answer 6

Who must dispatch me?

I account this world a tedious theatre,

For I do play a part in’t ‘gainst my will. (4.1.81-82)

Question 7

Ferdinand to the duchess

Answer 7

Die then quickly

Question 8

Ferdinand final line

Answer 8

Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust,
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
(Ferdinand, Act 5 Scene 5)