Streetcar - Stella Flashcards
1
Q
Positioned as a battleground for the conflict between Stanley and Blanche
A
- “Belle Reve” / “abandoned Belle Reve” / “stayed and fought for it”
- “(with girlish laughter” You ought to see their wives” / “One time (laughing) the plaster - (laughing) cracked-“
- “And try to understand her and be nice to her, Stan”
- “of a background obviously quite different from her husband’s”
- “pulled off columns”
- “you’ve got to realise that Blanche and I grew up under very different circumstances than you did.”
- “I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them coloured lights going!”
2
Q
Adapts in order to survive
A
- “Red hots!” / “red stained package”
- “The best I could do was make my own living, Blanche”
- “She jumps up and kisses him which he accepts with lordly composure”
- “You’re making much too much fuss about this”
- “He smashed all the light bulbs with the heel of my slipper!” / “I was- sort of - thrilled by it”
- “I’m not in anything I want to get out of.”
- “Stella has embraced him–with both arms, fiercely, and full in the view of Blanche. He laughs and clasps her head to him”
3
Q
Central to the conflict, makes the final decision and cements Stanley as victorious
A
- “And wasn’t we happy together? Wasn’t it all okay? Till she showed here.” / “Take me to the hospital.”
- “I- just told her that- we’d made arrangements for her to rest in the country.” / “I don’t know if I did the right thing.”
- “I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley.”
- “Oh, God, oh please God, don’t hurt her!” / “What have I done to my sister?”
- “Stella accepts the child, sobbingly.”
