Setting Flashcards
What are the key methods of setting in A Streetcar Named Desire?
*Presentation of the Kowalski apartment
* Use of portiers as an illusionary barrier to the realm of masculinity
*Presentation of New Orleans and French Quarter as a lively, homogenous community but also a dangerous one
* Alluded setting of Belle Reve as charming in its decay
* Blanche’s mind through the use of Plastic Theatre
First presentation of Elysian Fields and New Orleans in Sc1
“raffish charm”
“for New Orleans is a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races”
“The Blue Piano expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here”
Presentation of Belle Reve as a symbol of the Old South and its associations with death Sc1
“I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!” Blanche
“The long parade to the graveyard!” part of Blanche’s monologue
“Funeras are pretty compared to death” part of Blanche’s monologue
Belle Reve Sc2
“exchanged the land for epic fornications”
Presentation of the poker table as the realm of masculinity Sc3
“Over the yellow linoleum of the kitchen table hangs an electric bulb with a vivid green glass shade”
“the raw colours of childhood’s spectrum”
“the poker players…wear coloured shirts and they are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as course and direct and powerful as the primary colours”
Stanley rescuing Stella from Old South to New America
“I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it”
The Tarantula Arms Sc9
“The Tarantula Arms! That’s where I brought my victims”
“panic that drove me from one to another, hunting for some protection” Blanche
