Streetcar A Level Flashcards
Blanche’s first stage direction?
There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.
Blanche quote from scene 1
Funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet but deaths - not always.
Stanley’s first stage directions
But with the power of a richly feathered male bird among hens.
Blanche quote from scene 2
I hurt him the way you would like to hurt me but you can’t!
Description of the men in scene 3
As coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colours
Stella quote from scene 3 p.29
It makes me so mad when he does that in front of people
Stella quote from scene 4 p.41
He was as good as a lamb when i came back and he’s really very, very ashamed of himself.
Blanche quote from scene 5
And you’ve got to have your existence admitted by someone, if you’re going to have someone’s protection.
Stella quote from scene 5 p.53
I don’t listen to you when you Are being morbid!
Blanche quote from scene 6 p.67
It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow
Stanley quote from scene 7 p.74
I’d have that on my conscience the rest of my life if i knew all that stuff and let my best friend get caught!
Stella quote from scene 8 p.81
But people like you abused her and forced her to change
Mitch quote from scene 9 p.89
You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother
Blanche quote from scene ten p.93
It is the one thing of which i have never, never been guilty
Stella quote from scene 11 p.99
I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley.
