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Questions trace plot, motive, stagecraft, symbols, and subtext in the play's first six scenes.
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When Blanche first reaches Elysian Fields, what contrast does Williams set up around her arrival?
Blanche tells Stella that Belle Reve is lost. What immediate pressure does that news put on the sisters?
Stanley searches Blanche's trunk while she is bathing. What does he think he may prove?
What do the papers Blanche finally hands Stanley show about Belle Reve?
During the poker night, what event forces the men to restrain Stanley?
After Stanley calls for Stella from the street, what does Stella do?
In Scene 5, Stanley mentions a man named Shaw and the Hotel Flamingo. What consequence does this have?
Blanche drinks while waiting for Stella in Scene 1, then pretends the bottle has barely been touched. What is she protecting?
Why does Blanche repeatedly ask Stella to say she looks good and has not aged too much?
When Blanche asks Stella about Stanley's habits and background, why does she press so hard?
Why does Mitch's gentleness and concern for his sick mother matter to Blanche in Scene 3?
Blanche tells Mitch about Allan Grey in Scene 6. What does this confession help explain?
Williams calls his method “plastic theater.” Which early effect best fits that craft?
The two-room apartment has only a curtain between spaces. What dramatic effect does that setting create?
The Varsouviana polka begins around Blanche's memory of Allan Gray and stops with the gunshot sound. What is its function?
Why does the bare bulb bother Blanche so much in the early scenes?
How does the offstage street life of Elysian Fields shape the first scenes?
What does the paper lantern Blanche puts over the bulb symbolize most directly in Scenes 3 and 5?
Stanley handles Blanche's clothes, furs, and costume jewelry in Scene 2. What do those props let him do?
Blanche's baths recur in the first half of the play. In Scenes 2 and 3, what do they suggest?
Blanche's bottle of liquor is hidden and then explained away. What does the bottle function as?
In Scene 4, Blanche calls Stanley an animal while a passing train covers the sound of someone coming in. What dramatic pressure does this staging create?
When Stella defends her attraction to Stanley after the poker-night violence, what subtext is Blanche unable to accept?
Blanche flirts with and kisses the young collector before Mitch arrives. What tension does this scene expose?
In Scene 6, Blanche says she told Allan Gray that he disgusted her before his suicide. What does that dialogue press on?
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