Streetcar - Silent Characters

Question 1

Allen Grey

Answer 1

• “There was something about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn’t like a man’s”
• “He was in the quicksands and clutching at me- but I wasn’t holding him out, I was slipping in with him!”
• “(A locomotive is heard approaching outside. She claps her hands to her ears and crouches over.)”
• “We danced the Varsouviana”
• “The Grey Boy! He’d stuck the revolver into his mouth and fired- so that the back of his head had been- blown away!”
• “unable to stop myself- I’d suddenly said- I saw! I know! You disgust me…”
• “I think Blanche didn’t just love him but worshipped the ground he walked on! Adored him and thought him almost too fine to be human! But then she found out– This beautiful and talented young man was a degenerate.”

Question 2

Shep Huntleigh

Answer 2

• “I went out with him at college and wore his pin for a while.”
• “Texas is literally spouting gold in his pockets.”
• “Honey, would I be here if the man weren’t married?”
• “Darling Shep. Sister and I in desperate situation”
• “I received a telegram from an old admirer of mine.” / “A cruise of the Caribbean on a yacht!”
• “Mr Shep Huntleigh. I wore his ATO pin my last year at college… Then-just now-this wire- inviting me on a cruise of the Caribbean!”
• “There isn’t no millionaire!”