Stella Kowalski

Question 1

Aristocratic

Answer 1

• Educated and raised on a plantation Old South
• Stanley feels threatened in a household with an aristocratic majority particularly when he hears Blanche’s words from Stella’s mouth.

Question 2

Gentle, impressionable and passive homemaker

Answer 2

• Empathetic
• Forgiving
• Manipulated
• Tolerant
• Passive: She can reflect the audience’s position of helplessness in the play.
• Reflects 1940’s subjugated and dependent woman

Question 3

Realistic and Practical

Answer 3

Stella makes excuses and pardons for Stanley’s behavior. Suggests that she believes that there is a possibility that the rape happened, and she knows Stanley better than others

Question 4

Stella’s betrayal

Answer 4

Stella here is also deceiving herself and creating an illusion, like Blanche, under which she will live