Scene 1

Question 1

‘Elysian fields’

Answer 1

Paradise

Question 2

‘His dog to lick her and when he did she’d feel an icy cold wave’

Answer 2

Sexual humour, an exposition of the main theme of the play

Question 3

‘A red stained package from the butchers’

Answer 3

Primal behaviour, animalistic man

Question 4

(Bellowing): Hey there! Stella, Baby!

Answer 4

Verb: bellowing. Lack of polite mannerisms

Question 5

‘Her appearance is incongruous to this setting. She is daintily dressed in a white suit’

Answer 5

White indicating purity
Not fitting in the environment

Question 6

‘Her white clothes, that suggest a moth’

Answer 6

Moth to flame, attract to light but its not the same to her as she repels light because the truth will come out

Question 7

‘She showed me a picture of your home place, the plantation’

Answer 7

Shows the Dubois wealth

Question 8

‘Where could it be, i wonder? Oh i spy, i spy

Answer 8

Deception- dramatic irony as she knows

Question 9

‘Why didn’t you let me know?

Answer 9

She is conspiring, trying to inflict an insecurity

Question 10

‘You see i still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping (she laughs nervously and glances at Stella for reassurance)

Answer 10

Seeks physical validation, underlying insecurity

Question 11

‘I was on the verge of- lunacy’

Answer 11

Self admission

Question 12

‘Then put the bottle away so i won’t be tempted’

Answer 12

Past participle of tempted

Question 13

‘Yes. A different species’- Stella

Answer 13

‘Species’=noun, very primal view of Stanley, shows a division of class

Question 14

‘I assure I wasn’t just blinded by all the brass’

Answer 14

Blinded= adjectives, deceived is what Stella is implying. She wasn’t deceived by Stanley into the new lifestyle

Question 15

‘But had to burned like rubbish’

Answer 15

Simile- Blanche referring to Belle Reve

Question 16

Eunice: I made a spaghetti dish and I ate it all myself’

Answer 16

Comical relief of the tension rising

Question 17

‘Since the earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women’`

Answer 17

Unregulated sexual desire

Question 18

‘He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual gratification, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them’

Question 19

‘Where’s the little woman?’

Answer 19

Irony as Blanche says to Stella that ‘you’ve out on some weight’

Question 20

(The music of the polka rises up, faint in the distance)

Answer 20

Scene 6: death music