A Streetcar Named Desire All Answers Correct
[Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package.] S1 ️️Theme: Man and Masculinity
Literary Device:
1. Characterization of Staley.
2. Red - Stained: Its symbolic for his masculinity and Stanley's "primitive" masculinity.
Mea...
[Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package.] S1 ✔️✔️Theme: Man and Masculinity
Literary Device:
1. Characterization of Staley.
2. Red - Stained: Its symbolic for his masculinity and Stanley's "primitive" masculinity.
Meaning:
• FIRST TIME the audience is introduced to Stanley.
• The bowling jacket is an indirect characterization of sort as it portrays his manly nature and the red-
stained further symbolizes that he is dominant.
The "blue piano" sounds louder. ✔️✔️Theme: Music, Masculinity
Literary Device:
1. Mood - The Louder the music tells the audience that a devastating event has taken place and also it is
symbolic for Stanley's dominance.
Meaning:
• This occurs after Stanley tells Blanche about Stella's pregnancy.
• Stanley says this deliberately in order to hurt Blanche.
• He's just been a bit humiliated since Blanche proved her story about Belle Reve with the financial
papers, so this is his way of asserting his dominance once more.
"Stanley, Steve, Mitch, and Pablo wear colored shirts, solid blues, a purple, a red-and-white-check, a
light green..."
There are vivid slices of watermelon on the table, whiskey bottles and glasses. ✔️✔️Theme:
Masculinity
,Literary Device:
1. Characterization
Dramatic Technique:
Stage Directions
Meaning:
• Williams uses physical props - or, in this case, clothing - to make his point about Stanley's masculinity.
• These vivid, virile colors contrast with Blanche's white, moth-like clothing + Her name.
- The primary colors are the main colors and are symbolic of the men being the main pillars in the
society.
STELLA: [There is the sound of a blow. Stella cries out.] S3 ✔️✔️Theme: Marriage, Men and
Masculinity
Literary Device:
1. Situational Irony - Stella was the one who was attracted to his animal-like-nature and this is what she
gets in return.
2. Foreshadowing
Meaning:
• It is through this action; the audience understands that Stanley uses violence to assert his dominance
over Stella.
• This also foreshadows his rape scene later on in the play, as if he has used violence once he is going to
use it again.
• It also tells that Stanley uses violence to get his own way.
STELLA: He was as good as a lamb when I came back...S4 ✔️✔️Theme: Sex
Literary Device:
1. Simile
,2. Metaphor: Lamb
3. Juxtaposition
Meaning:
1. Stanley's dual nature makes it difficult for the audience to condemn him.
2. Juxtaposes his nature to that of a sweet lamb.
STANLEY: "I want my baby down here. Stella, Stella!" ✔️✔️• Blanche is threatening the marriage
• Impact on the audience
• Very pitiful - A vulnerable position Stanley
Stanley: "Hey, canary bird! Toots! ✔️✔️• Instigate her sister to advise her to leave.
• Not a man's right to threaten a women's livelihood.
• Reducing her to an animal
• Degradation - reducing her to an animal
BLANCHE: only way to live with such a man is to - go to bed with him! (4.90) ✔️✔️Theme: Sex
Literary Device:
1. Foreshadowing
Meaning:
• Foreshadowing the rape scene.
• At this point she is belittling her sister's choice of man, as she believes he's only good to fulfil Stella's
sexual desires, which she backs up to a point saying: things between a man and women must stay in the
dark.
• Blanche recognizes this and calls it 'brutal desire' suggesting that's all there is to her sister's
relationship; which isn't a good basis at all.
• Stella is rebelling against her proper upbringing in Belle Reve with Stanley who provides a clear
contrast to her roots.
Marriage
, STANLEY: "Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often." ✔️✔️Themes: Masculinity
Literary Device:
Meaning:
• It refers to the truth
• Blanche is full of BS
• Alcohol is something that she's addicted to
• Alcohol is used to cover up a lot of things
• Double meaning
• Stanley Ambiguous person
STELLA: can hardly stand it when he is away for a night (1.161-6) ✔️✔️Themes: Marriage, Men and
Masculinity, Sex
Literary Device: Hyperbole
Meaning:
• She can't live without a man
• Very co-dependent on Stanley
• Needs a man to offer some stability
• Stanley has proven himself in society - Hardworking, Strong, Confident
STANLEY: when do you give me orders? (2.70-1) ✔️✔️Themes: Men and Masculinity
Literary Device: Conflict (Man vs. Man)
Meaning:
• Blanche changes the dynamics of their marriage.
• This is the reason why Stanley hates Blanche She's ruining the dynamics of their relationship
• Stanley forced Stella to take the position of a subservient women.
• Plays a power struggle
• Clearing the table Relate it to the table clearing Only women are supposed to clean and have to day to
day activities
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