Finish the Quotation
"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called _______."
What is Cemeteries?
"He went to war, and then he came home and he didn’t know how to talk to anybody anymore. He drove around the lake all day, again and again."
Who is Norman Bowker?
In scene 1, this animal is used to indicate the characters fragility and inability to stay away from danger.
What is a moth?
Deep in this foreboding environment, Mary Anne Bell disappears, symbolizing her complete assimilation into the darkness of war.
What is the Vietnamese Jungle?
This object, often associated with Blanche, symbolizes her fear of aging and her desire to hide the truth about herself.
What is the paper lantern?
"You’re not clean enough to bring in the _______."
What is house with my mother?
"He wanted to transform himself—he wanted to be tough, to be a killer. But he couldn’t muster the right emotions."
Who is Rat Kiley?
Creon declares that this is the force that corrupts men and leads them astray.
What is money?
Blanche frequently retreats to this small but symbolic part of Stella and Stanley’s apartment, seeking privacy and escape.
What is the bathroom?
This character delivers the final lines of the play, warning that wisdom and reverence for the gods are the keys to happiness.
Who is The Chorus?
"There is no greater agony than bearing an _____."
What is "untold story inside you"?
"Like father, like daughter, passionate, wild … she hasn’t learned to bend before adversity."
Antigone compares her fate to this tragic figure from Greek mythology, who was also buried alive.
Who is Niobe?
This noisy and vibrant location near the Kowalskis’ apartment, where men drink and gamble, symbolizes Stanley’s world of masculinity and dominance.
What is the bowling alley?
"The displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat?"
What is "an unnecessary insult"?
"In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of the truth itself, and therefore it’s safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever ______."
What is "absolutely true"?
"The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh."
Who is Creon?
A symbol of Momma’s strength in a world where that strength is necessary for survival.
What is Momma's Store?
Maya and Bailey briefly live in this midwestern city with their mother, where Maya experiences both trauma and growth
What is St Louis?
This soldier, known for his reckless bravado, is killed when he steps on a rigged mortar round while playing catch with a grenade.
Who is Curt Lemon?
"The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried it together. But each carried _____"
(What is " his own emotions too?")
"Don’t–don’t hang back with the brutes!"
Who is Stanley?
The repeated phrase "a true war story is never about war" suggests that war stories are really about these two themes.
What are memory and storytelling?
This small town in Minnesota, where Tim O’Brien grows up, represents the pressure of societal expectations and his initial innocence before the war.
What is Worthington?
What is "The Brown Bomber"?