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Streetcar Scene 2 Flashcards

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What are the beginning stage directions?

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It is six O clock in the evening. Blanche is bathing. Stella is completing her toilette. Blanche’s dress, a flowered print, is laid out on Stella’s bed

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How does Stanley describe Stella and Blanche’s preparations to go out?

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‘Monkey doings’

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How does Stanley accept the kiss from Stella?

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‘He accepts with lordly composure’

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How is Stanley sarcastic about them going out?

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‘Well isn’t that just dandy’

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How is Stella assertive when speaking to Stanley?

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‘You’d better give me some money’

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What is the reason Stella gives to Blanche bathing?

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‘To quiet her nerves. She’s terribly upset’

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How does Stella explain to Stanley about Belle Reve?

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‘Vaguely’

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How does Stella explain what happened to Belle Reve?

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‘It had to be - sacrificed or something’

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How does Stanley speak at the beginning of this scene?

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Monosyllables
‘So?’
‘Yes’
‘How?’

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How does Stanley act to Stella asking him to not mention the baby?

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‘Ominously’

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How does Stella describe Blanche’s insecurity to her appearance?

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‘Her little weakness’

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How does Stanley mock Blanche’s story about Belle Reve?

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‘Sister Blanche cannot be annoyed with business details right now’
‘Well, what in the hell was it then, given away? To charity?’

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How do we see Stanley is more forceful?

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‘I don’t care if she hears me’

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How does Stella stand up for the papers Stanley wants to see?

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‘I don’t care about papers’

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What does Stanley say the Napoleonic code is?

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‘What belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa’

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How does Stanley imply Stella is his property?

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‘It looks to me like you’ve been swindled, baby, and when you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code, I’m swindled too. And I don’t like to be swindled’
Also worried about his money

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What does Stella think about Stanley’s behaviour about Belle Reve and Blanche?

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‘You don’t know how ridiculous you’re being when you suggest that my sister or I or anyone of our family could have perpetrated a swindle on anyone else’

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How is Stanley animalistic in his movements?

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‘He stalks into the bedroom’

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How is Stanley violent with Blanche’s stuff?

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‘Jerks out an armful of dresses’
‘Hurls the furs on the bed’
‘He jerks open a small drawer in the trunk and pulls up a fistful of costume jewellery’
‘He kicks the trunk partly closed’

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How does Stanley mock Blanche’s clothing?

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‘Look at these feathers and furs that she come here to preen herself in. What’s this here? A solid gold dress I believe’
‘Fox pieces! Genuine fox pieces!’
‘The treasure chest of a pirate’

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How does Stanley suggest Stella’s purity?

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‘Where are your fox pieces Stella? Bushy snow-white ones no less! Where are your white fox pieces?’

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How does Stella stand up for Blanche’s clothing?

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‘Those are inexpensive summer furs that Blanche has had a long time’
‘Don’t be such an idiot Stanley!
‘You have no idea how stupid and horrid you’re being. Now close that trunk before She comes out if the bathroom’

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What does Stanley suggest Blanche’s occupation actually is (mocking)?

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‘A deep sea diver who brings up sunken treasures?’

‘The champion safe-cracker of all time!’

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How does Stanley relate Blanche’s clothes to Belle Reve?

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‘Here’s your plantation or what’s left of it here?’

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How do we know Stella is angry at Stanley?

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‘Angrily’

‘She snatches up her white hat and gloves and crosses to the outside door’

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How does Stanley assert his male dominance on Stella?

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‘Since when do you give me orders?’

27
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What is Blanche wearing when she comes out of the bathroom?

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‘Red satin robe’

28
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Which quotes lead to the rape scene?

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‘Excuse me while I slip on my pretty new dress’

‘Some buttons in back! You may enter’

29
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How does Stanley act sarcastically to Blanche?

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‘What could that be I wonder?’

30
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How does Stanley act when he helps Blanche?

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‘He crosses through the drapes with a smouldering look’

31
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How does Stanley lie to Blanche?

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‘Me an’ Stella we’re helping you unpack’

32
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How does Blanche mock men and also Stanley and Stella’s attempt to help her?

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‘You men with your big clumsy fingers’

‘Well, you certainly did a fast and thorough job of it!’

33
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How does Blanche fish for a compliment?

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‘Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be- attractive?’
‘I was fishing for a compliment, Stanley’

34
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What did Stanley say about complimenting women?

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‘I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told’

35
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How does Stanley use a simile to show how he stopped his previous girlfriend talking?

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‘That shut her up like a clam’

36
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How does Blanche describe Stanley?

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‘You’re simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side I should think’

37
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How does Stanley assert his authority over Blanche?

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‘Booming’

38
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How does Blanche react to Stanley ‘booming’ at her?

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‘Pressing hands to her ears’

39
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How is Blanche flirty with Stanley?

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‘The poor thing was out there listening to us, and I have an idea she doesn’t understand you as well as I do’
‘She sprays herself with her atomiser; then playfully sprays him with it’

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What sort of air does Blanche say Stanley has?

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‘An impressive judicial air’

41
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How is Stanley violent with Blanche’s atomiser?

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‘He seizes the atomiser and slams it down on the dresser’

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How does Blanche react to Stanley slamming down her atomiser?

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‘She throws back her head and laughs’

43
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What sort of ideas does he mean when he says ‘if I didn’t know that you was my wife’s sister I’d get ideas about you’?

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She’s a prostitute

44
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What does Blanche say when Stanley starts rooting through her stuff?

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‘What’s in the back of that little boy’s mind of yours?’

45
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How does Blanche describe her love letters?

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‘These are love letters, yellowing with antiquity, all from one boy’

46
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How does Stanley act towards the love letters? How does Blanche respond?

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‘He snatches them up’
‘He rips off the ribbon’
‘She speaks fiercely’
‘Give those back to me’
‘The touch of your hands insults them’
47
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What suggests power loss with the love letters?

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‘They cascade to the floor’

48
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What must Blanche do with the love letters now?

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‘Now that you’ve touched them, I’ll burn them’

49
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How does Blanche describe the love letters?

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‘Poems a dead boy wrote’

50
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How does Blanche act after the love letter incident?

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‘She now seems faint with exhaustion’

51
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How does Blanche mock Stanley’s ability with the Belle Reve papers?

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‘I think it’s wonderfully fitting that Belle Reve should finally be this bunch of old papers in your big, capable hands’

52
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How does Stanley describe the law papers and men of the time?

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‘Uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications’

53
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How does Blanche mock Stanley when he says he will get a lawyer to look at the papers?

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‘Present them to him with a box of aspirin tablets’

54
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How does Stanley tell Blanche Stella is pregnant?

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‘You see- under the Napoleonic code- a man has to take an interest in his wife’s affairs- especially now that she’s going to have a baby’

55
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How does Stanley act when he reveals Stella is pregnant?

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‘Becomes somewhat sheepish’

56
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What happens to the music when Blanche discovers Stella is pregnant?

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‘The ‘blue piano’ sounds louder’

57
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How does Stella act when Blanche reveals she knows she’s pregnant?

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‘Stella returns the embrace with a convulsive sob’

58
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What does Blanche say to Stella to link to the rape scene?

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‘And flirted! Yes - I was flirting with your husband, Stella!’

59
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How do the other men react to Blanche?

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‘A short, curious stare’

60
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What does Blanche suddenly say about the sky?

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‘I ought to go there on a rocket that never comes down’

61
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How does Blanche describe Stanley to Stella?

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‘He’s just not the sort that goes for Jasmine perfume’

62
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How does Blanche act and speak when the vendor appears?

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‘Utters a sharp, frightened cry and shrinks away’
‘Which way do we- go now- Stella?’
‘The blind are- leading the blind!’

63
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What is the music like at the end of this scene?

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‘The ‘blue piano’ and the hot trumpet sound louder’

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