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What ideas or concerns have been brought up in Scene 2?

What ideas or concerns have been brought up in Scene 2?. Scene 3 What are the differences between Blanche’s marriage to Allan Grey and Stella’s marriage to Stanley? How does this relate to the different experiences of love?.

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What ideas or concerns have been brought up in Scene 2?

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  1. What ideas or concerns have been brought up in Scene 2?

  2. Scene 3 What are the differences between Blanche’s marriage to Allan Grey and Stella’s marriage to Stanley? How does this relate to the different experiences of love?

  3. What do the stage directions at the beginning of scene 3 set up for the audience? What is the difference between the lighting in this scene and in scene 1? What is Williams showing through his descriptions of the clothing and objects in the directions?

  4. Stella’s response when Stanley slaps her thigh is: ‘It makes me so mad when he does that in front of people.’ What can we take from this? (p48) What does Blanche’s line: ‘That one seems – superior to the others.’ (p 49) Suggest about her attitude to people?

  5. Why is Blanche attracted to Mitch?Why is Mitch attracted to Blanche? What is the significance of Blanche having Mitch put the coloured lantern over the lightbulb? (p55) What does her line: ‘I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.’ (p55) Say about Blanche?

  6. Notice music on the radio (p57) After Stanley has hit Stella, Mitch says: ‘Poker shouldn’t be played in a house with women.’ What is he saying? (p58 and 59) Notice the music playing in the bar, after all the men have left Stanley alone. (p59)

  7. Look at the stage directions on p 59 after Stanley has called Eunice. What can we take from them? What can we take from Eunice’s lines beginning ‘You can’t beat on a woman...’? Notice the stage directions as Stella goes down to Stanley. (p60) What is noticeable about this?

  8. Notice Blanche’s last lines of the scene: ‘there’s so much confusion... I need kindness now.’ (p61) What can we take from this?

  9. What ideas or concerns have been brought up in Scene 3?

  10. Scene 4 What do the stage directions tell us here? How does Blanche perceive Stanley’s behaviour? (p63-4) How does Stella perceive it? (p63-4) Notice Blanche’s line: ‘Is this a Chinese philosophy you’ve – cultivated?’

  11. What do Blanche’s lines: ‘I took the trip as an investment, thinking I’d meet someone with a million dollars.’... ...’would I be here if the man weren’t married?’ Tell us?

  12. ‘I take it for granted that you still have sufficient memory of Belle Reve to find this place and these poker players impossible to live with.’ ‘But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark – that sort of make everything else seem unimportant.’ Haven’t you ever ridden on that streetcar? It brought me here – where I’m not wanted and where I’m ashamed to be...’ (p70) – what do these lines tell us about Stella and Blanche?

  13. Notice the stage direction about the train (p71) What might it symbolise? Notice also that Williams uses it to conceal Stanley’s entrance. Notice the words Blanche uses to describe Stanley: Common, bestial, animal, sub-human, ape-like. Notice the link back to the meat Stanley threw at Stella at the opening.

  14. Re-read Blanche’s long speech on p72. Is she right? Or Wrong? Why? – can you find reasons for both answers? Look at the stage directions at the end of scene 4. What can we take from them?

  15. What ideas or concerns have been brought up in Scene 4?

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