Blanche
Setting and Set
Stella
Symbols & Props
Stanley
100
The literal English translation of Blanche DeBois' name.
What is White Woods?
100
The sounds of this instrument can be heard day and night in New Orleans.
What is the blue piano?
100
Stella is expecting one soon.
What is a baby?
100
There is something about Blanche's uncertain manner and her white clothes that suggest this creature.
What is a moth?
100
Bowling and poker
What are Stanely's pastimes?
200
"Whoever you are, I've always depended on the kindness of strangers."
What is Blanche's last line in the play?
200
Blanche spends most of her off-stage time there.
What is the bathtub?
200
Before everyone died.
When did Stella leave Belle Reves?
200
Cheap clothing, fake furs and jewelry, and a rhinestone tiara.
What is in Blanche's trunk?
200
Stanley invokes this law when he discovers Blanche has lost Belle Reves.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
300
"There was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and a tenderness which wasn't like a man's, although he wasn't the least bit effeminate looking."
How does Blanche describe her young husband?
300
The couple that lives upstairs from Stella and Stanley.
Who are Eunice and Steve?
300
The fancy restaurant where Stella takes Blanche while the men play cards.
What is Galatoires?
300
"And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."
What is the inscription on Mitch's cigarette case?
300
Stanley carries, throws, eats, and craves this.
What is meat?
400
The Varsouviana polka.
What is the imaginary music that haunts Blanche?
400
The cheap hotel back in Mississippi where Blanche entertained men.
What is the Flamingo?
400
Stella does this when Stanley comes home from a road trip.
What is 'cries in his lap like a baby?'
400
Elysian Fields sits between the L&N tracks and this.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
A millionaire from Dallas who Blanche pretends has sent her a telegram inviting her to the Caribbean.
Who is Shep Huntley?
500
This picture hangs in Stella and Stanley's apartment
This picture hangs in Stella and Stanley's apartment.What is Van Gogh's painting of a billiard parlor at night.
500
She couldn't believe this and go on living with Stanley.
What is Blanche's rape?
500
A paper lantern.
What does Blanche ask Mitch to hang over the lightbulb?
500
"This game is seven-card stud."
What is the last line of the play?