These are revision documents that I used for my A* in English A'level, summarising and analysing key parts of the Streetcar text. These really helped my exam answers, and got me the grades I needed for Cambridge - hopefully these will help you too!
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6 two a.m. Very late
6 utter exhaustion Williams perhaps hints at his own
which only a problems
neurasthenic
personality can know
6 amusement park on Allan commits suicide next to a lake; their Physical
Lake Pontchartrain outing parallels the story that Blanche tells setting and
staging
6 upside down, a A Hollywood actress who was a sex symbol
plaster statuette of - ironic because Mitch doesn’t get any of
Mae West this action.
6 shooting-galleries Reflects how Allan shot himself
6 Is that streetcar Although Mitch wants something sexual to
named Desire still happen, it does not.
grinding along the
tracks at this hour?
6 I simply couldn’t rise Innuendo
to the occasion
6 law of nature B accepts the patriarchy
lady must entertain
the gentleman - or
no dice!
6 See if you can locate Ordering Mitch what to do Imperative
my door-key
6 Good boy! Acting like a school teacher - could show
differences in education
Infantilising him because she wants him to
be younger and more like Allan
CWE Bigsby - ‘gross parody of her first
husband’
6 shuffles and coughs Awkward and not suave like Stanley who
a little moves with the ‘confidence of a richly
Can I - uh - kiss you - feathered male bird among hens’
good-night?
6 other little - Euphemism
familiarity
6 lord and lady of the Stanley in Scene 2 accepts Stella’s kiss with
house have not yet ‘lordly composure’
returned
6 Let’s leave the lights Dark room enacts what she will say later
off about never having seen bright light after
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