Streetcar - ambition Flashcards

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‘I can not imagine…

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any witch of a woman casting a spell over you’

Scene 2 - Blanche to Stanley

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‘You men with…

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your big clumsy fingers’

Scene 2 - Blanche to Stanley, sexual + suggestive

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Stanley establishing dominance in the apartment once Blanche has arrived

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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

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Blanche is ambitious to create an illusion of herself

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

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

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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’

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

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

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Blanche ambitious to keep her southern belle status?

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