Streetcar Critics

Question 1

Robert Brustein

Answer 1

The conflict between Blanche and Stanley allegorises the struggle between effeminate culture and masculine libido

Question 2

J.M. McGlinn

Answer 2

[Stanley] wishes to destroy [Blanche’s] composure to make her recognise that she is the same as he is, a sexual animal

Question 3

Ruby Cohn

Answer 3

Stanley has trained his wife to catch his meat, in every sense

Question 4

Alvin B Kernan

Answer 4

Stanley is a realist who trusts only his own senses…

Question 5

George Hovis

Answer 5

Depicts the ‘Southern Belle’ imagae as being “both a mask and a prison”

Question 6

Emma Kirby

Answer 6

sanity is dependent on fitting in and adhering to the social roles expected of us

Question 7

Katrina Duerre

Answer 7

[Blanche] attempts to maintain her past luxurious life by holding onto and creating new desires rather than adjusting to her reality

Question 8

The New Yorker

Answer 8

A play about the disintegration of a woman…or of a society

Question 9

Elia Kazan

Answer 9

He’s got things the way he wants them around there and he does not want them upset by a phony, corrupt, sick, destructive woman. This makes Stanley right!

Question 10

P. Allan

Answer 10

She craves ‘magic’ because the truth about postwar America is too harsh to bear

Question 11

Bert Cardullo

Answer 11

They are less victim and villain… than mutual victims of desire