Streetcar - ambition Flashcards
‘I can not imagine…
any witch of a woman casting a spell over you’
Scene 2 - Blanche to Stanley
‘You men with…
your big clumsy fingers’
Scene 2 - Blanche to Stanley, sexual + suggestive
Stanley establishing dominance in the apartment once Blanche has arrived
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
Blanche is ambitious to create an illusion of herself
‘I want to deceive him enough to make him want me’
Blanche ambition to be better than Stella? (weight quote)
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’
Blanche ambition to be better than Stella? (treating Stella like child quote)
‘You messy child’
Blanche tells her to stand up and Stella ‘complies reluctantly’
‘My precious little sister’
Blanche ambitious to keep her southern belle status?
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