Streetcar Quotes Scene 1

Question 1

“gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay”

Question 2

“a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town”.

Question 3

“Catch!” / “Meat!”, “heaves” - Stanley

Question 4

“blue denim work clothes”, “red-stained package from a butcher’s”

Question 5

“her appearance is incongruous to this setting”

Question 6

“that suggests a moth”, “her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light”

Question 7

“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!”

Question 8

“the blind look goes out of her eyes”, “very stiffly with her shoulders slightly hunched”

Question 9

“I’ve got to keep hold of myself!”

Question 10

“not till I’ve bathed!”, “merciless glare”

Question 11

“as she tries to laugh” “the bottle nearly slips from her grasp”

Question 12

“No coke, honey”

Question 13

“I was so exhausted by all I’d been through my - nerves broke”. “I was on the verge of - lunacy”

Question 14

“Daylight never exposed so total a ruin!”

Question 15

“Well, I never had your beautiful self control”

Question 16

“my looks are slipping” / “- will it be decent?”

Question 17

“I’m not very well”

Question 18

“A different species”

Question 19

“The best I could do was make my own living, Blanche”

Question 20

“Fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!”

Question 21

“since earliest manhood” / “his love of good drink and food and games, his car, his radio, everything that is his, that bears his emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer”

Question 22

“Not in my territory”

Question 23

“You were married once, weren’t you?”