Street Car

Question 1

The Past

Answer 1

Repetition of “a boy”
“Walks w/o Turing”
Loved Allen “unendurably” - semantic field of light
Polka music & fragmented speech
“I was never hard or self sufficient enough”
“Soft colours” “it was a storm all a storm”
“Paper moon”

Question 2

Failure

Answer 2

“Just a boy”
“He was in the quicksands clutching at me”
“You’ve got to be soft & attractive & I’m fading now”
“Dame Blanche” failure of soc to accept her”jerks out an armful of dresses”

Question 3

Illusion Vs Reality

Answer 3

“Soothingly” “now, now love, now love”
Paper lantern - M = “glad to” put it up - “adjusting it”
Semantic field of magic surrounding B
“Scuffed silver slippers”
“It wouldn’t be make believe if you believed in me”
“Lily white” fingers = ironic = illusion
Piano in “hectic breakdown”

Question 4

Femininity

Answer 4

“White suit” “daintily” women must wear “soft colours” the “colours of butterfly wings”
“Her delicate beauty must avoid strong light”
“Fading now”
“Something about her uncertain manner as well as her white clothes that suggests a moth”
“Ppl have got to tolerate each others habits”

Question 5

Conflict

Answer 5

“Stanley stalked fiercely through the portieres”
“Snatches” the radio
Other men “feebly” tell him to clam down
“Dame Blanche” contropunctual speech
“Lie number one”
“Clasps” Stella
“Music of the blue piano” “trumpet and drums”
“Roughly dressed” “work clothes” Vs “daintily dressed” “fluffy bodice”

Question 6

Masculinity

Answer 6

stanley often carries packages
“clasps” stella = predatory
“vivid green glass shade” “solid blues, a purple & red & white check” “raw “colours”
gorrilla sounds, overbearing sound of the train approaching
licks lips - animalistic
“grease stained” clothes
“S gives a loud wack of his hand on her thigh” “snatches”

Question 7

Stella & Stanley’s Relationship

Answer 7

“bellowing” “heaves”
“How about my supper huh”
pg 18 Napoleanic code

Question 8

Blanche

Answer 8

“her appearance in incongruous in this setting”
“her delicate beauty must avoid strong light”
“what I meant was I’d like to be left alone”
“she springs up” “shaking all over”
“I I I took the blows in my face and my body”

Question 9

Blanche & Stella

Answer 9

“plump as a little partridge”
“you never did give me a chance to say much”

Question 10

Stanley & Blanche

Answer 10

“some people rarely touch it but it touches them often”