Streetcar Named Desire

Question 1

raffish charm

(blue/shadows invest scene with) lyricalism and gracefully accentuates the atmosphere of decay

infatuated fluency of brown fingers

Answer 1

1:1

Question 2

[STANLEY carrries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher’s]

[STELLA…a gentle young woman…background obviously quite different from her husband’s]

BLANCHE [daintly dressed…nacklace and ear-rings of pearl]

Answer 2

1: 2
1: 2
1: 3

Question 3

[She pours a half tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down. She carefully replaces the bottle]

Answer 3

Blanche 1:5

Question 4

[Nervously tamping cigarette] I was on the verge of - lunacy, almost!

Answer 4

Blanche > Stella 1:7

Answer 5

Stella 1:8

Question 6

When he’s away for a week I nearly go wild!

Answer 6

Stella > Blanche 1:10

Question 7

I, I, I took the blows in my face and my body! All of thse deaths! The long parade to the graveyard!

You didn’t sream, but I saw! Saw! Saw!

Where were you. In bed with your - Polack!

Answer 7

1st Monologue 1:12

Question 8

[since earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women]

[everything that is his, that bears the emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer]

Answer 8

1:13

Question 9

Liquor goes fast in hot weather.

Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often.

[He starts to remove his shirt]

Answer 9

Stanley > Blanche 1:14

Question 10

perpetual ‘blue piano’

Stan, we’ve - lost Belle Reve!

Answer 10

2:16

Stella > Stanley 2:16

Question 11

In the state of Lousinana we have the Napoleonic code (Belle Reve owndership)

(rummaging trunk) Open your eyes to thia stuff! You think she got them out of a teacher’s pay?

Answer 11

Stanley > Stella 2:18

Question 12

The Kowalskis and the DuBois have different notions

Answer 12

Stanley > Stella 2:19

Question 13

I don’t like pinks and creams and I never cared for wishy-washy people.

Answer 13

Blanche > Stanley 2:21

Question 14

(rumaging Blanche’s trunk) What’s in the back of that little boy’s mind of yours?

Now that you’ve touched them I’ll burn them!

Poems a dead boy wrote.

Answer 14

Blanche > Stanley 2:23

Question 15

(Belle Reve) exchanged the land for their epic fornications

[she pours the contents of the envelope on the table] ..I hereby endow you with them!

wonderfully fitting..in your bug, capable hands!

Answer 15

2nd Monologue 2:24

Question 16

Stella for Star! How lovely to have a baby!

Answer 16

2:25

Question 17

[lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colours…

yellow linoleum…electric bulb with a vivid green glass shade…dim with only light that spills between the portières]

Answer 17

3:27

Question 18

I feel so hot and frazzled

[STANLEY gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh]

It makes me so mad when he does that in front of people

Answer 18

Blanche > Stella 3:29

Stanley > Stella: 3:29

Stella > Blanche 3:29

Question 19

That one seems - superior to the others

Is he a wolf?

[she is unbuttoning her blouse]

Answer 19

Blanche > Stella 3:30

Question 19

You’re standing in the light, Blanche!

[with girlish laughter] You ought to see their wives

Answer 19

Stella 3:31

Stella > Blanche 3:31

Question 20

(cigarette case inscription)

‘And if God chose, I shall love thee better - after death! (Sonnet 43, Browning)

Answer 20

Blanche > Mitch 3:33

Question 21

coloured paper latern at a Chinese shop on Bourbon. Put it over the light bulb!

I can’t stand a naked lightbulb, any mire than I can a rude remark or vulgar action

Answer 21

Blanche > Mitch 3:34

Question 22

Drunk – drunk – animal thing, you!

[There is the sound of a blow. STELLA cries out. BLANCHE screams]

Answer 22

Stella 3:35

3:35

Question 23

Stella! [There is a pause.] My baby doll’s left me!

[with heaven-splitting violence] STELLL-AHHHHH!

Answer 23

Stanley > boys 3:37

Stanley 3:38

Question 24

[The low-tone clarinet moans... They come together with low, animal moans... Her eyes go blind with tenderness]

Answer 24

3:38

Question 25

[narcotized tranquility that is in the faces of Eastern idols] [table is sloppy with remains of breakfast and the debris of the preceding night]

Answer 25

4: 40 4: 40

Question 26

powder-keg...snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing light-bulbs with it

Answer 26

Stella > Blanche 4:41

Question 27

You’re married to a madman! I said I am not in anything that I have a desire to get out of

Answer 27

Blanche 4:42 | Stella 4:42

Question 28

Honey, would I be here if the man weren’t married?

Answer 28

Blanche (Shep Huntleigh) 4:44

Question 29

brutal desire - just - Desire! | ..(contrastingly) It bought me here

Answer 29

Blanche > Stella 4:46

Question 30

something – sub-human...ape-like about him Stanley Kowalski – survivor of the stone age! Bearing the raw meat grunting; swilling; gnawing long way from being made in God’s image

Answer 30

3rd Monologue 4:47

Question 31

[he grins at her] Them darn mechanics at Fritz’s don’t know their can from third base! [over her head he grins]

Answer 31

Stanley > Stella (& Blanche) 4:48

Question 32

[fanning herself with a palm leaf] ...being such a liar! I’m weiting a letter to Shep..[laughs nervously and brightly, touching her throat]

Answer 32

Blanche > Stella 5:49

Question 33

[shrieking]: You hit me! [a clatter of aluminium..there is a crash; then a relative hush]

Answer 33

Euinice > Steve 5:50 | Steve > Eunice 5:50

Question 34

Capricon - the Goat! ..Virgo is the Virgin. [contemptuously] Hah!..do you happen to know someone named Shaw!..met at a hotel named the Flamingo [BLANCHE touches the colonge-dampened handlerchief to her temples]

Answer 34

Blanche > Stanley 5:51 Stanley > Blanche 5:51 5:52

Question 35

soft people have got to court the favour of hard ones ..put on..butterfly wings, ..temporary magic ..to pay for – one night’s shelter! men don’t –don’t even admit your exsistence unless they are making love to you. put a – paper lantern over the light ..And I – I’m fading now!

Answer 35

4th monologue 5:53

Question 36

I want to decieve him enough to make him – want me... Ah, me, ah, me, ah, me...

Answer 36

Blanche > Stella 5:55 | Blanche 5:55

Question 37

[she raises herself wearily to her feet and picks up the hand mirror] I didn’t know that stars took up collections It’s temperamental? [It flares]

Answer 37

Blanche 5:56 Blanche > young man 5:56 Blanche > young man 5:56

Question 38

You make my mouth water you look like a young prince out of the Arabian Nights softly ans sweetly on your mouth. [Without waiting for him to accept]

Answer 38

Blanche > young man 5:57

Question 39

keep my hands off children. Adios! My Rosenkavalier!

Answer 39

Blanche > young man 5:57 | aware of Mitch

Question 40

[the utter exhaustion which only a neurasthenic personality can know] [MITCH is stolid and depressed]

Answer 40

6: 59 6: 59

Question 41

Honey, it wasn’t the kiss I was objected to..it was the other little – familiarity – that I – felt obliged to – discourage. . . flattered that you – desired me!

Answer 41

Blanche > Mitch 6:60 | Blanche > Mitch 6:60

Question 42

Voulez-vous couhez avec moi ce soir? Vouz ne comprenez pas? Ah, quel dommage!

Answer 42

Blanche > Mitch 6:61

Question 43

two hundred and seventy pounds and I’m six feet one and a half Samson! Go on, lift me.

Answer 43

Mitch > Blanche 6:63 | Blanche > Mitch 6:63

Question 44

How old are you? [she makes a nervous gesture] Why do you want to know?

Answer 44

Mitch > Blanche 6:65 6:65 Blanche > Mitch 6:65

Question 45

It was like you suddenly turned on a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow softeness and tenderness..he was in the quicksands and clutching at me found a room (with) two people in it...

Answer 45

5th Monologue 6:66

Question 46

[Polka..minor key faint with distance] We danced the ‘Varsouviana’! ..(he) ran out of the casino.. – a shot! [polka music stops abruptly. BLANCHE rises stiffly.. resumes in a major key]

Answer 46

6:67 Blanche (husband) > Mitch 6:67 6:67

Question 47

‘You digust me’ ..never for one moment since..light that’s stronger than this – kitchen – candle... Sometimes – there’s God – so quickly!

Answer 47

Blanche (husband) > Mitch 6:67 | Blanche 6:68

Question 48

Her Majesty in the tub? [STELLA shrugs] Some canary-bird, huh!

Answer 48

Stanley > Stella 7:69 | Stanley 7:70

Question 49

‘It’s only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea – But it wouldn’t be make-believe if you believed in me!’

Answer 49

Blanche 7:70

Question 50

“Dame Blanche” (repetition) ..washed up like poison A seventeen-year-old boy – she’s gotten mixed up with!

Answer 50

Stanley > Stella 7:71 | Stanley > Stella 7:72

Question 51

Toots! Get OUT of the BATHROOM! Must I speak more plainly?

Answer 51

Stanley > Blanche 7:75

Question 52

[BLANCHE has a tight, artificial smile drawn on her face] [She throws her head back and laughs]

Answer 52

8: 76 8: 77

Question 53

[He hurls his pate to the floor] ‘Pig – Polack – disgusting – vulgar – greasy!’ ..A pair of queens?..I am the king

Answer 53

8:77 | Stanley > sisters 8:77

Question 54

(phones Mitch) [remains by the phone with a lost, frightened look]

Answer 54

Blanche 8:78

Question 55

I hope his eyes are going to be like candles [sitting down] What poetry!

Answer 55

Blanche 8:79 | Stanley > Blanche 8:79

Question 56

take hot baths for my nerves..helathy Polack..don’t know what anxiety feels like! one hundred percent American, born and raised

Answer 56

Blanche > Stanley 8:79 | Stanley > Blanche 8:79

Question 57

Ticket! Back to Laurel! On the Greyhound! Tuesday! [‘Varsouvivana’ music steals in softly] tender and trusting..people like you abused her, and forced her to change

Answer 57

Stanley > Blanche 8:80 8:80 Stella > Stanley 8:81

Question 58

[some interior voice had called her name] [quietly] Take me to the hospital. El pan de mais, el pan de mais, El pan de mais sin sal (corn bread x2 without salt)

Answer 58

8:81 Stella > Stanley 8:82 Blanche 8:82

Question 59

so utterly uncavalier! But hello, beautiful! [She offers him her lips. He ignores it]

Answer 59

Blanche > Mitch 9:83 | 9:84

Question 60

I don’t want Stan’s liquor. That – music again...

Answer 60

Mitch > Blanche 9:84 | Blanche > Mitch 9:84

Question 61

[A distant revolver is heard, BLANCHE seems relieved] ..now it’s stopped Are you boxed out of your mind?

Answer 61

Blanche > Mitch 9:85 | Mitch > Blanche 9:85

Question 62

He says you’ve been lapping it up all summer like a wild cat!

Answer 62

Mitch > Blanche 9:85

Question 63

[He tears the paper lantern off the light bulb. She utters a frightened gasp] I don’t want realism..I want. magic! [MITCH laughs]

Answer 63

9:86 | Blanche > Mitch 9:86

Question 64

Flamingo? No! Tarantula

Answer 64

Blanche > Mitch 9:87

Question 65

That’s where I bought my victims. I had many intimacies with strangers. ‘This woman is morally unfit for her position!’

Answer 65

6th Monologue 9:87

Question 66

Flores para los muertos

Answer 66

Mexican woman > Blanche 9:88

Question 67

You’re not clean enough

Answer 67

Mitch > Blanche 9:89

Question 68

[rhinestone tiara on her head..mumuring excitedly] moonlight swim in the old rock-quarry?.. – if you hit a rock you don’t come up till tomorrow...

Answer 68

Blanche 10:90

Question 69

[STANLEY appears...honky-tonk music is heard] What’ve you got on those feathers for? ..Miami millionaire

Answer 69

10:90 | Stanley > Blanche 10:91

Question 70

I used to have a cousin who..was just a human bottle opener red-letter night for us both. You having an oil-millionaire and me having a baby

Answer 70

Stanley > Blanche 10:92 | Stanley > Blanche 10:92

Question 71

both entitled to put on the dog ..foolish – casting my pearls before swine!

Answer 71

Stanley > Blanche 10:93 | Blanche > Stanley 10:93