Scene One Flashcards
Stanleys blue collar working outfit
“Blue denim work clothes”
Stanley chucking the meat at Stella
“He heaves the package at her”
Blanche not fitting in with New Orleans
“Her appearance is incongruous to this setting”
Blanche first outfit
“She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice”
Animal that Blanche is linked to
“Suggests a moth”
Blanche can’t be in the light
“Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light”
Two things she says about Stanley be polish
“They’re something like Irish”
“Polacks”
First line of blanches big monologue about losing the house. Personal pronoun shows the effect of the experience and that she doesn’t care abut the death only the effect it had on her
“I,I, I took the blows in my face and my body”
Where she says Stella was while she was fighting for the house
“In bed with your- Polack!”
Description of Stanley that shows that he’s animalistic
“Animal joy in his being”
List of stuff Stanley likes to show that he is materialistic and likes to own stuff
“His love of good drink and food and games, his car, his radio”
Prolly most key Stanley quote, shows he’s almost too excessively, but not ashamed
“Gaudy seed bearer”
Shows that Stanley objectifies women, is ID
“He sizes women up at a glance”
Sound that plays when Blanche talks about Allen, and what she says as the last line of scene one, shows physical reaction to trauma but also youth of Allen
the music of the polka rises up
“The boy- the boy died”
“I’m-going to be sick”
What happens
Blanche rocks up, rude abt where Stella lives and her husband, blanches talks about Belle reve, Stanley and blanch have a small chat
