Streetcar Key Quotes

Question 1

(Stanley and Stella, Scene 1) “Catch!” …

Answer 1

… “What?” … “Meat!”

Question 2

(Stage Directions, Scene 1) “Her appearance is …

Answer 2

… incongruous to this setting”

Question 3

(Stage Directions, Scene 1) “looking as if …

Answer 3

… she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party.”

Question 4

(Blanche, Scene 1) “I’ve got to keep …

Answer 4

… hold of myself!”

Question 5

(Blanche, Scene 1) “I can’t …

Answer 5

… be alone!”

Question 6

(Blanche to Stella, Scene 1) “But don’t look at me, Stella, no, no, no, …

Answer 6

… not till later, not till i’ve bathed and rested! And turn that over-light off!”

Question 7

(Blanche to Stella, Scene 1) “Where were you …

Answer 7

… In bed with your — Polack!”

Question 8

(Stella about Stanley, Scene 1) “A different …

Answer 8

… species”

Question 9

(Stella, Scene 1) “Stop this hysterical outburst …

Answer 9

… and tell me what’s happened?”

Question 10

(Stage Directions about Stanley, Scene 1) “He sizes woman up at glance, …

Answer 10

… with sexual classifications.”

Question 11

(Stella to Stanley, Scene 2) “And admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful …

Answer 11

… That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness!”

Question 12

(Stanley to Blanche, Scene 2) “I don’t want no ifs, ands or buts! …

Answer 12

… What’s all the rest of them papers?”

Question 13

(Stage Directions for Stanley, Scene 3) “Stanley gives …

Answer 13

… a loud whack of his hand on her thigh.”

Question 14

(Blanche about Mitch, Scene 3) “I thought he had a sort of …

Answer 14

… sensitive look.”

Question 15

(Mitch, Scene 3) “Poker should not …

Answer 15

… be played in a house with women.”

Question 16

(Stage Directions, Scene 3) “Stanley throws …

Answer 16

… his head like a baying hound and bellows his wife’s name.”

Question 17

(Stella, Scene 4) “But there are things that happen …

Answer 17

… between a man and a woman in the dark — that sort of make everything else seem — unimportant.”

Question 18

(Blanche to Stella, Scene 4) “There’s something downright — …

Answer 18

… bestial — about him! You’re hating me saying this, aren’t you?”

Question 19

(Blanche, Scene 5) “Right on …

Answer 19

… my pretty white skirt!”

Question 20

(Stage Directions, Scene 5) “Blanche gives …

Answer 20

… a piercing cry.”

Question 21

(Blanche, Scene 6) “In fact, I was somewhat flattered …

Answer 21

… that you desired me!”

Question 22

(Blanche about Stanley, Scene 6) “That man …

Answer 22

… will destroy me.”

Question 23

(Stage Directions, Scene 7) “the distant piano …

Answer 23

… goes into a hectic breakdown.”

Question 24

(Blanche, Scene 9) “I like it dark. …

Answer 24

… The dark is comforting to me.”

Question 25

(Mitch to Blanche, Scene 9) “You’re not clean enough …

Answer 25

… to brig in the house with my mother.”

Question 26

(Stage Directions for Mitch, Scene 9) “He tears …

Answer 26

… the paper lantern off the light bulb.”

Question 27

(Mitch, Scene 9) “How …

Answer 27

… old are you?”

Question 28

(Mitch, Scene 9) “Are you …

Answer 28

… boxed out of your mind?”

Question 29

(Stage Directions, Scene 10) “Lurid reflections appear on the wall around Blanche …

Answer 29

… The shadows are of a grotesque and menacing form.”

Question 30

(Stage Directions, Scene 10) Blanche’s “crumped white satin” vs Stanley’s …

Answer 30

… “vivid green silk bowling shirt”

Question 31

(Blanche, Scene 11) “I’ve always depended …

Answer 31

… on the kindness of strangers.”