Summary

Question 1

what happens in scene 1?

Answer 1

• exterior setting of elysian fields
• meat hurling episode
• Blanches attitude to the boiling and exterior appearance is revealed
• Blanche is uncomfortable in the flat, she drinks
• Stella and Blanche meet excited, Blanche talks more and pours another drink
• Blanche makes comments on Stanleys lower class status
• Blanches outburst reveals she lost Belle Reve
• Blanche and Stanley meet

Question 2

What happens in scene 2?

Answer 2

• Stanley believes Blanches emotional fragility act is to hide her theft from selling Belle Reve
• Stanley refers to the Napoleonic code
• Stanley invades Blanches trunk
• Blanche flirts with Stanley but he rejects.
• Stanley tells Blanche about the baby

Question 3

what happens in scene 3?

Answer 3

• Poker game
• Mitch exposes his sick mother
• Blanche and Mitch are attracted and talk which makes Stanley mad at Mitchs absence.
• Blanche turns radio on and Stanley throws it out the window
• Men takes Stanley to shower and sober up, Stella runs to Eunice apartment
• Stanley and Stella rush together

Question 4

what happens in scene 4?

Answer 4

• Blanche is horrified with Stanleys behaviour and their relationship
• Blanches asks Stella to escape Stanley by asking money from Shep Huntleigh, a suitor.
• Blanche is confused how Stella could love Stanley but Stella disagrees
• locamotive roars past and Stanley was listening.

Question 5

what happens in scene 5?

Answer 5

• Blanche reads her letter to step Huntley, Stella is not amused
• Steve and Eunice fight
• Stanley questions Blanche about her past
• young man meets Blanche

Question 6

what happens in scene 6?

Answer 6

• After Mitch and Blanches first date, they compliment each others physique.
• Mitch asks for Blanches age, she asks why
• Blanche exposes her past trauma of her young husband to Mitch

Question 7

What happens in scene 7?

Answer 7

• Blanches birthday
• Blanche sing paper moon in the shower
• Stanley learns the details of Blanches past from Shaw and tells Stella, who isn’t convinced, and Mitch
• Stanley tells Stella he has bought a ticket for Blanche to go back to Laurel.

Question 8

What happens in scene 8?

Answer 8

• Blanches gloomy birthday dinner
• Blanche tells Stanley a lame joke
• Stella calls Stanley greasy from his eating
• He gets frustrated from the name calling and smashes his plate. Stella cries.
• Blanche is confused to why Mitch isn’t at the party
• Stanley gives the birthday gift, ticket to Blanche. She cries.
• Stella is rushed to hospital

Question 9

what happens in scene 9?

Answer 9

• Mitch is at the door, messy and drunk which surprises Blanche.
• Mitch is frustrated and is starting to have little patience for Blanche
• Mitch confronts Blanche about the light and explains he doesn’t care about her age. He doesn’t want to be lied to.
• Blanche cries and explains the truth
• Blind women appears
• Mitch says Blanche isn’t fit to marry, she screams fire.

Question 10

what happens in scene 10?

Answer 10

• A few hours after Mitches departure, Blanche wears a tiara but gets angry and smashes the mirror.
• Stanley, drunk, asks why Blanche is dressed up. She states that Shep Huntleigh has invited her to go on a yacht.
• Stanley takes off his shirt and wears his silk pyjamas
• Stanley attacks Blanche and she uses a broken bottle as defence
• Stanley rapes Blanche

Question 11

what happens in scene 11?

Answer 11

• Stella says she couldn’t believe Stanley raped Blanche but Eunice says she has no choice bu to live with him.
• Men play poker
• Blanche expects a call from Shep Huntleigh
• Doctor and nurse takes Blanche