Streetcar - masculinity Flashcards
‘He heaves..
the package at her’
Scene 1 to Stella
The game the men play
‘Poker’
Stanley
‘Animal joy’
‘Sizes women up with a glance’
(Scene 1)
‘Ape-like’
‘Beastial’
(Scene 4)
Stanley demeaning
‘What’s all this monkey doings’
Scene 2 - Blanche bathing and Stella completing her toilette
‘It makes me so…
mad when he does that in front of people’
Scene 3 am- Stella about Stanley slapping her thigh
Stage direction
‘Stanley gives a…
loud whack of his hand on her thigh’
Scene 2
‘Poker shouldn’t…
Be played in a house with women’
Scene 3 - Mitch
Stanley throwing package at Stella
‘He heaves a package at her’
‘She cries out in protest’
‘Laughing breathlessly’
Meat symbolises
Stella being controlled and carelessly chucked around by her husband
How does the setting of the Kowalski’s flat hint at women being used for sex and house chores
Description of the flat is just the ‘kitchen’ - housewife
and ‘bedroom’ - sexual pleasures
There is no sense of love or relationship, the flat has no living space. Stella’s love life revolves around sex and being a submissive wife.
Blanche is described as what when she find out Stanley
doesn’t know she is coming?
‘Frightened’
Because traditionally men were in charge of the house etc’
Stanley’s lust
‘Early manhood..’
Since ‘earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women’
How Stanley describes Stella
‘Little women’
Williams’ own father was a…
His mother called him a …
Alcoholic
and Williams’ mother called him a ‘man’s man’ who liked to gamble and drink
Williams as a child
Fragile and bullied a lot
One of the original titles of Streetcar?
‘The Polker night’
How did Williams’ father treat his mother?
She was often abused by his aggressive, alcoholic father
When Blanche realised Stanley doesn’t know she is done she is deceived as
‘Frightened’
Patriarchy context
Territorial Stanley
‘You’re damn tootin’ I’m going to stay here’
‘This is my house and I’ll talk as much as I want to’
Which scene has the only title in the whole play
Scene 3
‘The poker night’
Description of the poker night
Lurid nocturnal brilliance Raw colours of a childhood’s spectrum Yellow linoleum Vivid green Solid blues, purple, green
Diminishing linguistic strength of poker boys
‘Two cards. You. I’m out. One’
Stanley hitting Stella’s thigh quotes
“Stanley gives a loud back of his hand on her thigh’’
“It makes me so mad when he does that in front of people.” - alludes to it being common
Avian imagery Stanley vs Stella and Blanche
Stanley is a ‘richly feathered male bird’
And the women are ‘hens’ - ‘you hens cut out that conversation in there’
