Streetcar - Mitch

Question 1

Positioned as an outcast in the relentless, masculine environment, instead is sensitive and awkward

Answer 1

• “I’m out”
• “gotta sick mother”
• “She says to go out, so I go, but I don’t enjoy it. All the while I keep wondering how she is”
• “That one seems-superior to the others” / “had a sort of sensitive look”
• “I am ashamed of the way I perspire. My shirt is sticking to me.”
• “(embarrassed) My weight is not a very interesting subject to talk about. (he hesitates for a moment) What’s yours?”

Question 2

Conforms to Blanche’s fantasies

Answer 2

• “read the inscription”/ Why, that’s from my favourite sonnet by Mrs Browning!”
• “old-fashioned ideals”
• “natural gentleman”
• “Rosenkavalier”
• “Bow to me first” / “he does so”
• “You need somebody. And I need somebody too. Could it be- you and me, Blanche?”

Question 3

Emotional capacity

Answer 3

• “great capacity for devotion”
• sick mom
• “collapsed at the table, sobbing”
• “lunges and strikes at Stanley”

Question 4

Can’t save Blanche from her demise due to her deception

Answer 4

• “I wouldn’t be expecting Mitch over tonight.” / “Well, he’s not going to marry her. Maybe he was, but he’s not gong to jump in a tank with a school of sharks now!”
• “He tears the paper lantern off the light bulb” / “So I can take a look at you good and plain”
• “he places his hands on her waist and tries to turn her around” / “been missing all summer”
• “fumbling to embrace her”