Order these moments: Stanley searches Blanche's trunk, Stella returns after the poker night, Mitch tears off the lantern, the doctor enters. Which happens second?

What first makes Blanche's stay with Stella more than a casual visit?

Why does Stanley invoke the Napoleonic Code when he questions Blanche about Belle Reve?

After the poker game turns violent, what causes Stanley to shout for Stella from the street?

How does Stanley's report about Blanche's life in Laurel affect Mitch?

What follows Stanley's birthday gift of a bus ticket back to Laurel?

Why is Blanche alone with Stanley in Scene Ten?

What decision brings the doctor and matron to the apartment in the final scene?

As Blanche is led away, what happens around the card table?

Stella returns to Stanley after the poker night and later chooses him over Blanche's accusation. What pattern does this show?

What is the central conflict between Stanley and Blanche?

Why are Mitch and Blanche drawn to each other before Stanley's revelations?

Blanche's story about Allan Grey most directly explains which conflict inside her?

What role does Eunice play for Stella near the end?

When Blanche calls Stanley a Polack and a brute, what does his reply emphasize?

Why does Blanche urge Stella to leave Stanley after the poker night?

Why does Mitch finally reject Blanche in Scene Nine?

Blanche reaches Elysian Fields by taking Desire and then Cemeteries. What does that route symbolize?

What does the blue piano usually signal in the stage directions?

What does the Varsouviana polka mark whenever Blanche hears it?

Why does Blanche put a paper lantern over the bare bulb?

What is the repeated effect of Blanche's baths?

Blanche avoids daylight, asks for dim rooms, and fears the naked bulb. Which motif is this?

Stanley's first entrance includes a package of meat that he throws to Stella. What does that stage image emphasize?

How do sounds like the polka, locomotive, and jungle cries contribute to the play's plastic theater?

"I don't want realism. I want magic!" Who says this, and what is being refused?

"Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." What is the context?

"We've had this date with each other from the beginning!" What does Stanley's line signal?

Near the end, Stella tells Eunice, "I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley." Which story is Stella refusing to believe?

"I am the king around here, so don't forget it!" What conflict does Stanley underline?

"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action." What does this reveal?

"There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of make everything else seem—unimportant." Who explains desire this way?

Which statement best captures the play's illusion-versus-reality theme?

How does the play connect desire and death across its structure?

What larger social conflict is staged through Blanche and Stanley?

What does the play show about gender and power in Stella and Stanley's home?

Stanley tells true things about Blanche's past, but the play does not treat him as a moral hero. Why?

Blanche loses Belle Reve, her job, Mitch, and finally control of her own story. What tragic movement does this create?

Why is the doctor's gentleness in the final scene tragically important?

Which description best fits the play as Southern gothic tragedy?