Say What Now?
"STELL-LAHHHHH!"
Who is Stanley
Visiting Stella's home, this aspect offends Blanche
Untidyness, smallness, poverty
The Varsouviana music playing in the background is a stage direction that shows this character cannot overcome something of her past
Blanche
Blanche arrives on a streetcar named Desire in this scene
Scene 1
Blanche's desire for privacy contrasts with the friendliness of this character in Scene 1
Eunice
Tiger - Tiger! Drop the bottle top! Drop it! We've had this date with each other from the beginning!"
Who is Stanley?
Unshaved facial hair
Treating people gently, as they wanted to be treated, helps people to trust you is an important theme of this play. This character treats Blanche gently, however, his love for her has to be denied because of Blanche's past.
Mitch
In this penultimate scene, Stanley calls his foaming beer rain from heaven
Scene 10
Stella and Stanley have contrasting opinions on whether Blanche should be put out of their house. Stanley forces his way though and reveals this to show that Blanche will be gone by Tuesday
a bus ticket
"You lied to me Blanche. Lies, lies, inside and out...You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother."
Who is Mitch?
Blanche's "delicate" nature cannot take lighting from this Thomas Edison's invention
Suicide (Shoots himself)
In this eventful scene, multiple physical altercations occur including Stanley's fight with a shower.
Scene 3
Stella defends Blanche until Blanche argues that she must leave Stanley. Finally sticking up to her sister, Stella is seen as changing, making her this kind of character
Dynamic character
"The girl's dead now ... She knew that she was dying when she give me this. A very strange girl, very sweet - very"
Who is Mitch?
Rummaging through Blanche's suitcase, Stanley's touch of these things, concludes Stella to believe that she must burn them.
Love letters
Stanley is bold in believing he is right, and he tries to convince others to believe him too. While Stanley and Stella talk about Blanche's past while she bathes, they do so on this special day for Blanche.
Her birthday
Blanche admits to wanting Mitch badly in this scene but ends up mixing herself up with an innocent newspaper boy as her alleged beloved is on his way to pick her up to date night
Scene 5
This common symbol throughout the play shows the juxtaposition of what characters do in secret and how those secrets when exposed SHINE new consequences.
(HINT: they're contrasting things)
Light/Darkness
"What number you lookin for? ... You don't have to look no further ... it's sort of messed up right now but when its clean its real sweet."
Who is Eunice?
This question is commonly referred to as offensive, but when Mitch asks Blanche this question, she enjoys it, calling Mitch the muscular biblical character, Samson
How much do you weigh?
Mitch confronts Blanche about her lies. Blanche defends herself saying that she never lied in this place.
Her heart
In this scene Blanche sprays Stanley with some perfume from the atomizer....he may have needed it as she class him an ape two scenes later.
Scene 2
The normalcy of the poker game, with Stanley unbothered by past events, in the last scene contrasts with the tragedy of the play's ending. William's message of the play that men like Stanley can live this way despite their cruelty.
scot-free, innocently, without consequences, etc.