Streetcar Quotes Scene 9

Question 1

“Blanche is seated in a tense hunched position” / “scarlet satin robe” / “the music is in her mind” “she seems to whisper the words of the song”

Question 2

“blue denim shirt and pants” = contrasts scene 1

Question 3

“frantically hiding the bottle in a closet” / “she is so excited that her breath is audible as she dashes about”

Question 4

“You’ve stopped that polka tune that I had caught in my head”

Question 5

“plumps himself down on the bed in the bedroom and lights a cigarette”

Question 6

“he stalks into the bedroom” / “pushes” / “slowly and bitterly”

Question 7

“He says you been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat!”

Question 8

“I like it dark. The dark is comforting to me” / “I’ve never had a real good look at you, Blanche”.

Question 9

“I don’t want realism” / “I’ll tell you what I want. Magic!”

Question 10

“I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be the truth! And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

Question 11

“he tears the paper lantern off the light bulb” / “she cries out and covers her face”

Question 12

“Flamingo? No! Tarantula was the name of it! I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms”

Question 13

“Yes, I had many intimacies with strangers, “intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with…”

Question 14

“hunting for some protection”

Question 15

“I didn’t lie in my heart”

Question 16

“she is a blind Mexican woman” “flowers that lower-class Mexicans display at funerals”

Question 17

“Crumble and fade and - regrets” / “legacies! / “blood-stained pillow-slips”

Question 18

“Death” / “the opposite is desire” / “death was as close as you are”

Question 19

“he places his hands on her waist and tries to turn her about” / “fumbling to embrace her”

Question 20

“You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother.”