Streetcar

Question 1

Quotes on Elysian Fields

Answer 1

‘tender blue…accentuates the atmosphere of decay’

Question 2

Quotes on Stella and Stanley’s relationship

Answer 2

‘she laughs breathlessly’
‘I cry on his lap like a baby’
‘When you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code I’m swindled too. And I don’t like to be swindled

Question 3

Quotes on class

Answer 3

‘white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earring of pearl’
‘Maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now that we’ve lost Belle Reve’
‘I pulled you down of them columns and how you loved it, having them coloured lights going’
‘Crumpled white satin evening gown and a pair of scuffed silver slippers’

Question 4

Quotes on Blanche-Stella

Answer 4

‘precious lamb’
‘I just got into the habit of being quiet around you’
‘plump as a little partridge’
‘I don’t listen to you when you are being morbid!’
‘Oh God what have I done to my sister?’

Question 5

Imagery of Stanley as an animal

Answer 5

‘Red stained package from the butchers’
‘gaudy-seedbearer’
‘don’t hang back with the brutes’
‘Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle’

Question 6

References to literature

Answer 6

‘Only Mr Edgar Allan Pole!- could do it justice’

‘‘I shall love thee better- after death!’ Why that’s from my favorite sonnet by Mrs Browning’

Question 7

Quotes in isolation

Answer 7

‘you’re all I’ve got in the world and your not happy to see me’
‘You need somebody. And I need somebody.

Question 8

Quotes on appearance

Answer 8

‘I still have that awful vanity about my looks’

‘You’ve got to be soft and attractive. And I- I’m fading!’

Question 9

Quotes on death

Answer 9

‘funerals are not pretty compared to deaths’

‘Sick people have such deep sincere attachments’

Question 10

Quotes on race

Answer 10

‘in bed with your Polack!’
‘Pig-Polack-disgusting’
‘What I am is one hundred per cent American’

Question 11

Quotes on Stanley as predatory

Answer 11

‘crude sexual classifications’
But people like you abused her, and forced her to change’
‘So I could twist the broken end in your face’
‘Tiger- tiger! Drop the bottle top! Drop it! We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning’

Question 12

Quotes on Stanley and Blanche flirting

Answer 12

‘I never was a very good English student’
‘big clumsy fingers’
‘yes I was flirting with your husband Stella’

Question 13

Quotes on alcohol

Answer 13

‘some people rarely touch it but it touches them often’
‘I’m not accustomed to having more than one drink. Two is the limit- and three!’
‘He says you been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat!’

Question 14

Quotes on mental health

Answer 14

‘the music of the polka rises up’
‘the boy-the boy died’
‘don’t mention the baby’
‘Peals of laughter as if a child were frolicking in the tub’
‘The distant piano goes into a hectic breakdown’
‘I pulled you down of them columns and how you loved it, having them coloured lights going’

Question 15

Quotes on masculinity

Answer 15

‘my sister has married a man’
‘witch of a woman’
‘Every Man is a King!’ And I am the King around here, so don’t forget it!’

Question 16

Quotes on appearance and reality

Answer 16

‘I call her little despite the fact that she’s somewhat older than I’
‘Virgo is the Virgin’
‘Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people…I tell what ought to be the truth’
‘Don’t ever believe it. Life has to go on.’
‘How strange I should be called a destitute woman! When I have all of these treasures locked in my heart’

Question 17

Quotes on Mitch-Blanche

Answer 17

‘awkward imitation like a bear’
‘I want to deceive him enough to make him- want me’
‘Look at who’s coming! Mr Rosenkavalier! Bow to me first!

Question 18

Quotes on violence

Answer 18

‘Drunk-drunk-animal thing’

‘There is the sound of a blow’

Question 19

Quotes on women

Answer 19

‘poker shouldn’t be played in a house with women’
‘hoping I’d meet a man with a million dollars’
‘Have got to be seductive- put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings, and glow- make a little- temporary magic’

Question 20

Quotes on sex

Answer 20

‘clinging wet polka boxers’
‘animal moans’
‘serene in the early morning sunlight’
‘there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark- that sort of make everything else seem- unimportant’
‘brutal desire’
‘His fingers find the opening of her blouse’

Question 21

Quotes on the past

Answer 21

‘I know! I know! You disgust me…’
‘love letters, yellowing from antiquity, all from one boy’
‘This beautiful and talented young man was a degenerate’

Question 22

Quotes on female sexuality

Answer 22

‘This is after the home-place had slipped through her lily-white fingers’
‘The kind that like to get lost immediately, on the first date’
‘Well you do honey lamb…I want to kiss you- just once- softly and sweetly on your mouth’
‘That’s where I bought my victims’
‘You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother’

Question 23

Key quotes on Blanche being taken away

Answer 23

‘Blanche walks on without turning’
‘This game is seven-card stud’
‘Monatron is a peculiarly sinister figure in a severe dress’
‘Echoed and re-echoed by other mysterious voices’