streetcar and feminine gospels

Question 1

describe allan gray’s suicide as a symbol of death 3

Answer 1

• ostracization of anyone not displaying hegemonic masculinity
• AO3: in US 1940s medicine, psychiatrists deemed homosexuality as a mental illness
• he never appears, shoeing his defiance of norms causing detrimental consequences

Question 2

in southern gothic terms, what does blanche represent 2

Answer 2

a ghost from the past
she is the return of the old south

she is also haunted by her past (death of husband, fall of belle reve)

Question 3

word to describe blanche

Answer 3

acting ostentatious

Question 4

describe blanche’s facade as used for preserving the old south 2

Answer 4

• she feels threatened in the new south, a new environment and around stanley (embodying this)
• portrays an aristocratic sophistication to assert superiority over stanley, but fails

Question 5

what is stella’s fantasy

Answer 5

her denial of the toxicity of her marriage

• stanley’s physical abuse and psychological manipulation exposes female dependency on husbands for survival

Question 6

3 points of methods used in the laughter of stafford girls high

Answer 6

allegory to feminism
microcosm, capturing such a big issue; elevates the power these school girls have
enjambment, free verse - liberation from rigid structures

Question 7

3 comparisons with the laughter of stafford girls high and streetcar

Answer 7

have characters as patriarchal symbols (stanley and mrs mackay)
use excessive methods to ridicule patriarchy - epic poem, plastic theatre, hallucinations
individual v collective rebellion, collective is effective

Question 8

1 comparison of loud with streetcar

Answer 8

both try using language
b calls stanley derogatory terms
p uses her voice hyperbolically