Streetcar

• What does Elysian Fields mean in Greek Mythology?

  the land of the dead
• what does Stella call Blanche's appearance?


  "her little weakness"
• what is blanche's jewellery made of?

  rhinestone
• "Here I am, all freshly bathed.... and feeling like a ...


  "... brand new human being!"
• significance of poker 


  can conceal and lie, links to Blanche bluffing, men, conflict and risk,
• significance of blanche's clothes being red, pink and white

  the concealed identity fading from truth, to washed out (pink) with glimpses of truth (white). Emphasised by the Flamingo hotel - pink and white
• how does blanche refer to Alan?

  'the boy' - obsession with youth, link to young boy from school and young boy she kisses ("young, young, young, young man")
• Stanley after fight with Stella: "My baby...


  "my baby dolls left me."
• Stella and light quote

  "her face was serene in the early morning sunlight"
• Quote about light

  "Lets leave the lights off shall we"
• "He was in ...


  "He was in the quicksands and clutching at me, but I wasn't holding him out I was slipping in with him"
• significance of the portieres

  thin membrane, can see through but only slightly, Blanche and truth?
• quote to show music combined in play

  "the distant piano goes into a hectic breakdown" "polka music sounds, in a minor key"
• "that candles burn out ...

  "that candles burn out in little boys and girls eyes"
• "I don't tell...

  "I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth"
• "the dark...


  "the dark is comforting to me"
• "slams the...


  "slams the mirror face down"
• First image we get of Stanley?

  carrying a "red-stained package from a butchers" - primal, masculine, death etc
• "I like an artist who paints in ...


  ... strong, bold colours, primary colours"
• Contrast in colours in Scene 3

  Blanche is in red/pink and Stella is in blue
• "I can't stand ...

  ... a naked lightbulb"
• Significance of Stanley calling Blanche a 'canary bird'

  Caged up, used in mines to reveal danger - almost sacrificial, Stanley using Blanche as a sacrifice to show dominance and power of New North/working-class?
• "intimacies with strangers was all ...

  ... I seemed able to fill my empty heart with"
• Baby wrapped in ..

  "pale blue blanket, Stella accepts the child"
• "her appearance is ...

  ... incongruous to the setting"