Streetcar AO5

    Cards (5)

    • 'The clock in ANSD is Stella's pregnancy... It is no accident that the day the Kowalski baby is born is also the day that the representative of the antebellum South, Blanche, is defeated, raped, destroyed'
    • 'Stanley's relationship with Stella is not simply romantic or sexual but also somewhat Oedipal, with Stella representing both his mother and his sex toy'
    • 'This is a play in which there is not a single male character to who we can look for a truly positive embodiment of masculinity'
    • 'In Mitch resides the only possibility in the play for a masculinity that does not fall into the stereotypes of either weak homosexuality (Allan) or brutal heterosexuality (Stanley), yet Mitch cannot break through the sexual code upheld and policed by Stanley.'
    • 'The hard consonants of Stanley Kowalski contrast with the open vowels of Blanche Dubois.'
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