Streetcar named Desire

Question 1

easy: Who is Stanley?

Answer 1

Stella’s husband

Question 2

easy: Where is the play set?

Answer 2

New Orleans

Question 3

easy: Where do Stella and Stanley live?

Answer 3

Elysian Fields

Question 4

medium: Why is blanche insecure of her age?

Answer 4

She thinks no man will want her if shes over the age of 30

Question 5

hard: How does Williams portray Stanley as being a dominant character

Answer 5

He uses domestic violence towards Stella showing how agressive he is, adding on to his masculinity, his strength is also emphasized in the play by his confidence and loud actions.

Question 6

easy: what is in blanches box in her suitcase?

Answer 6

love letters

Question 7

easy:why doesnt stella want stanley to mention the baby to blanche?

Answer 7

she wants to tell her when shes in a better position

Question 8

easy: where is blanche from?

Answer 8

Mississippi

Question 9

medium: who are blanches love letters from?

Answer 9

her dead husband

Question 10

hard: Why does Stanley not compliment women on their looks?

Answer 10

he claims he has “never met a women that didnt know if she was good looking or not” and that “some of them give themselves credit for more than theyve got”

Question 11

easy: what are Blanches main characteristics?

Answer 11

flirtatious, gullible and easily flattered

Question 12

easy: what are Stanleys main characteristics?

Answer 12

masculine, dominant and confident

Question 13

easy: who is Mitch?

Answer 13

Stanleys friend and work mate from the factory

Question 14

medium: why does Blanche like Mitch?

Answer 14

she knew they were both in need of companionship and thought of mitch as her hero

Question 15

hard: how does Williams use music throughout the play?

Answer 15

it is used by him to foreshadow events later on in the play and to represent the characters and their social class

Question 16

easy: what does Blanche think of Stanley?

Answer 16

she thinks he “acts like an animal”

Question 17

easy: who is Blanche’s heroic figure?

Answer 17

Mitch

Question 18

easy: what kind of city is new orleans?

Answer 18

an accepting, diverse and welcoming place

Question 19

medium: what are Stella’s main characteristics?

Answer 19

empathetic, forgiving, manipulated easily

Question 20

hard: to what extent does william’s portrayal of Blanche make you sympathise with her?

Answer 20

williams shows sympathy towards Blanche in her most dramatic victimization in the play, when she was raped by Stanley

Question 21

easy: what is the name of blanches dead husband?

Answer 21

Allan Gray

Question 22

easy: why does mitch end up not liking blanche?

Answer 22

he finds out about her past

Question 23

easy: where is stanley from?

Answer 23

poland

Question 24

medium: what happened in Blanches past?

Answer 24

her family fortune and estate are gone, and she lost her husband to suicide years earlier

Question 25

hard: how does stanley treat stella?

Answer 25

in the beginning stanley appears to be a nice guy, however he soon becomes the villain when he shows his abusive nature towards Stella

Question 26

easy: what happened to Blanches husband Allan Gray?

Answer 26

he commited suicide

Question 27

easy: how old is blanche?

Answer 27

around 30

Question 28

easy: where did Blanche meet mitch?

Answer 28

during one of stanleys poker games

Question 29

meduim: what are mitch's characteristics?

Answer 29

shy, clumsy, slow thinking

Question 30

hard: how does williams show Blanche to be flirty throughout the play?

Answer 30

She fishes for compliments often, she also flirts with Stanley and asks him to button her dress when she tries to win him over

Question 31

easy: what is new orleans?

Answer 31

where the play was set

Question 32

easy: what was happening to stella in scene 10?

Answer 32

she was having a baby

Question 33

easy: who is Eunice?

Answer 33

stanley and stella's upstairs neighbour

Question 34

medium: why does mitch get angry at blanche?

Answer 34

he finds out about her past

Question 35

hard: how does Stanley think of Blanche throughout the play?

Answer 35

Stanley has a hatred to towards Blanche because he sees her as untrustworthy