Streetcar Named Desire Play Questions
Uploaded by tyson_626 on Mar 19, 2005
Streetcar Questions
1. Streetcar opened in 1947, New York. Tennessee Williams was the playwright who grew up in Mississippi and later lived in New York.
2. The play was set in New Orleans in 1947. The season of which the play is set in is (May) spring and the story ends in (October) fall. Stanley and Stella lived in the less fortunate section of New Orleans.
3. Stanley throws a big hunk of wrapped meat at Stella in the 1st scene. Williams chose that object to symbolize that was the boss in that particular household. It tells us that Stanley is the more controlling one in the relationship and that their relationship is not a mutual agreement situation. It’s more like whatever Stanley says goes.
4. Eunice is Stella\'s friend, upstairs neighbor, and landlady.
5. Stella is about 25 years old, Stanley is around 30 years of age. Blanche is also around 30 years old. Blanches horoscope sign is Virgo and Stanley’s was Capricorn.
6. Belle Reve, (Blanche & Stella’s) their ancestral home, which Blanche lost following the death of all their remaining relatives. Belle Reve was lost due to a foreclosed mortgage.
7. Blanche comes to Stella’s house because she had nowhere else to stay and she was broke because Blanche had been basically kicked out of the town for her past.
8. Stella takes blanche out to dinner to show that the girls can have fun just as much as Stanley and the boys can.
9. The Napoleonic code means whatever belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa. Stanley wanted to know what happened to Belle Reve because Stella owned part of it meaning that Stanley was also part owner due to the Napoleonic code.
10. Stanley implies that Blanche is lying and is just trying to swoon Stella and himself out of money.
11. Inside the packet of letters were love letters from Blanches young husband who killed himself.
12. The street vendor was saying “Red-hot’s”, which was meant towards Stanley and Blanches flirting that is going on.
13. Mitch has to go home to take care of his sick mother.
14. On the cigarette case, it says “And if god chose, I shall but love thee better-after-death!” It tells us that both Blanche and Mitch have something in common between the loses of their loved ones.
15. She asks Mitch to put a Chinese lantern she has bought over the naked bulb. She...