Blanche
Who said it?
Symbols
Stanley
Mixed bag
100

Blanche's background could be described as

Privileged/Upper class/Well-to-do

100
"...I've got to be good...and keep my hands off children."
Who is Blanche?
100

Meat

Symbolizes Stanley and Stella's relationship

100
How is he related to Blanche? 

It is Stella's sister therefore his sister-in-law

100

Play is set in? When?

New Orleans/1947

200

Blanche's zodiac sign 

Virgo

200
"I'm afraid I'll strike you as the unrefined type."
Who is Stanley?
200
Varsouviana Polka

Blanche/the night her husband killed himself

200

Stanley's background would be described as 

Blue collar/lower class

200

Who had mental problems in Williams' family and greatly influenced his writing?

His sister - Rose - had a lobotomy.

300

Blanche's first husband was

Allan Gray - a closeted homosexual/having an affair with an older man

300
"Flores para los muertos..." ("Flowers for the dead...")
Who is the Mexican Woman
300

The Blue Piano

Sadness/Melancholy/the spirit of the play

300
Stanley and Blanche's relationship would be called

polar opposites

300

A major conflict in the play is

Illusion vs Reality

Blanche vs Stanley

400

Blanche's college sweetheart

Shep Huntleigh

400
"I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.”
Who is Stanley?
400

Baths/bathing

Blanche/Blanche's desire to cleanse herself of her past.

400

Stanley and Stella's relationship is

toxic but physical/passionate

400

Blanche's first impression of Mitch

kind/gentle/sensitive

500

Blanche's final destination

Mental Institution

500
“He came to me for help. I didn’t know that. I didn’t find out anything until after our marriage when we’d run away and come back and all I knew was I’d failed him in some mysterious way and wasn’t able to give the help he needed but couldn’t speak of!”
Who is Blanche?
500

Light

Blanche and Stanley/Blanche hides from light representing her deception. Light = Truth.


500

How does Stanley conform to gender roles of the era? 

Stanley is married and works outside the home as the provider for his family.

500

Provide at least 2 examples of how Stanley is Blanche's "executioner".

1) He rapes her 2) He turns Stella away from Blanche 3) He tells Mitch the truth about her 4) he publicly humiliates her by having friends over while she is escorted to mental institution.

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