Scene Three

Question 1

Scene Three is all about the…..

Answer 1

…….Poker Night!! Scene Three is arguably the most important scene to take place within “A Streetcar Named Desire” as at one stage, Williams nearly settled on naming the title of the play as “The Poker Night.”

Question 2

Stage Directions -
[The poker players - Stanley, Steve, Mitch and Pablo - wear coloured shirts, solid blues, a purple, a red-and-white check, a light green, and they are at the peak of their…….

Answer 2

……..physical manhood.]

Question 3

Stage Directions -

“The poker players are all men at the peak of their……

Answer 3

……..physical manhood.”

Question 4

Stage Directions -

“The poker players are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as course and direct and powerful as the…….

Answer 4

……..primary colours.” - shows that they are all bold and strong personalities with striking characteristics; there is nothing subtle or faded about them.

Question 5

Mitch: “Poker shouldn’t be played in a…….

Answer 5

…….house with women.”

Question 6

(Blanche to Mitch)

“Thank you for being so………

Answer 6

……..kind! I need kindness now.”

Question 7

Stage Directions -

“They come together with low……..

Answer 7

………animal moans.”

Question 8

Stanley: “You hens cut out that…….

Answer 8

…………conversation in there!” - suggests they twitter around and peck at things.

Question 9

Stella: “Blanche, this is Mr Gonzales and Mr Hubbel.”
Blanche: “Please don’t get………

Answer 9

…….up.”

Stanley: “Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried.”

Question 10

(Blanche talking to Stella about Mitch)

“I thought he had a sort of……

Answer 10

……..sensitive look.”

Question 11

(Blanche talking to Stella about Mitch)

“That one seems - superior to the……..

Answer 11

………others.”

Question 12

(Blanche to Mitch)

“Stella hasn’t been so well lately, and I came down to help her for a while. She’s very…….

Answer 12

…….run down.”

Question 13

Blanche: “I can’t stand a naked lightbulb, any more than I can a…….

Answer 13

……….rude remark or a vulgar action.”

Question 14

Stanley: “Nothing belongs on a poker table but…….

Answer 14

………cards, chips and whisky.”

Question 15

Stage Directions -

[A chair scrapes. Stanley gives a loud…….

Answer 15

……..whack of his hand on her thigh.] - Stanley is trying to impress his mates by dominating Stella.

Question 16

(Stella after Stanley hits her)

“That’s not fun, Stanley. It makes me so mad when he……

Answer 16

…….does that in front of people.”

Question 17

Mitch: “I wasn’t listenin’.”
Pablo: “What were you doing, then?”
Stanley: “He was………..

Answer 17

……..looking through them drapes.” [He jumps up and jerks roughly at the curtains to close them.]

Question 18

Blanche: “Have you got any cigs?”
…….
Blanche: “Oh, good. What a pretty case. Silver?”
Mitch: “Yes. Yes; read the inscription.”
Blanche: “Oh, is there an………..

Answer 18

…….inscription? I can’t make it out.” [He strikes a match and moves closer.] “Oh!” [Reading with feigned difficulty.]

Question 19

Blanche: “Sick people have such deep,…….

Answer 19

……….sincere attachments.”

Question 20

Blanche: “Sorrow makes for…….

Answer 20

…….sincerity, I think.”

Question 21

Blanche: “Show me a person who hasn’t known any sorrow and I’ll show you……..

Answer 21

………..shuperficial - Listen to me!”

Question 22

Mitch: “Miss DuBois?”
Blanche: “It’s a French name. It means woods and Blanche means……..

Answer 22

………white, so the two together mean white woods. Like an orchard in spring!”

Question 23

Mitch: “You’re French?”
Blanche: “We are French by……

Answer 23

………extraction. Our first American ancestors were French Huguenots.”

Question 24

Blanche: “Yes, Stella is my precious little sister. I call her little in spite of the fact…………

Answer 24

………she’s somewhat older than I. Just slightly. Less than a year.”

Question 25

Stage Directions -

[Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures. Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward………..

Answer 25

…….imitation like a dancing bear.]

Question 26

Stella to Stanley: “Drunk - drunk - animal…….

Answer 26

……..thing, you!”

Question 27

Stage Directions -

[He crosses to the small white radio and snatches it off the table. With a shouted oath, he………

Answer 27

…….tosses the instrument out of the window.]