Streetcar - ambition

Question 1

‘I can not imagine…

Answer 1

any witch of a woman casting a spell over you’

Scene 2 - Blanche to Stanley

Question 2

‘You men with…

Answer 2

your big clumsy fingers’

Scene 2 - Blanche to Stanley, sexual + suggestive

Question 3

Stanley establishing dominance in the apartment once Blanche has arrived

Answer 3

He asks her ‘do you mind if I remove my shirt’ and before she replies he ‘starts to remove his shirt’

Showing his ‘strongly and compactly built’ figure, asserting physical strength as well as dominance

Question 4

Blanche is ambitious to create an illusion of herself

Answer 4

‘I want to deceive him enough to make him want me’

Question 5

Blanche ambition to be better than Stella? (weight quote)

Answer 5

Stella has to ‘watch the hips a little’ whilst Blanche says ‘I haven’t put on an ounce in ten years’

Stella describes Blanche as ‘incredible’ but she does it ‘wearily’

Question 6

Blanche ambition to be better than Stella? (treating Stella like child quote)

Answer 6

‘You messy child’
Blanche tells her to stand up and Stella ‘complies reluctantly’
‘My precious little sister’

Question 7

Blanche ambitious to keep her southern belle status?

Answer 7

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