Truth in Streetcar
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- Created on: 20-04-20 12:23
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- Truth
- Scene 1
- "She pours half a tumbler of whisky and tosses it down. She carefully replaces the bottle and washes out the tumbler in the sink."(P7)
- Right from the start of the play Blanche hides her drinking habits.
- "Turn that off! I won't be looked at in this merciless glare!" (P7)
- Stella wants to hide and shield herself and what she has become, even from her own sister, Stella.
- She wants to be viewed in a particular way
- "the bottle nearly slips from her grasp" (P7)
- Right from the start of the play Blanche hides her drinking habits.
- "...while I look around for some liquor" (P7)
- Blanche knows that there is liquor in the apartment already, as she has drunk it.
- "your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard" (P8)
- Detached from this part of herself
- "I was on the verge of - lunacy, almost!" (P8)
- Mad people don't admit that they're mad, what is she trying to hide?
- "No, one's my limit" (P8)
- Already had 3
- "you've put on some weight.. just as plump as a little partridge!" (P9)
- Blanche craves compliments but talks down to her sister
- "I wasn't just blinded by all the brass!" (P11)
- Unlike Blanche, Stella likes Stanley for who he is rather than just for his money/status
- "The best I could do was make my own living, Blanche" (P11)
- Stella really relies on Stan for money
- "I, I, I took the blows to my face..." (P12)
- Blanche is telling the truth about what happened at Belle Reve
- Stella doesn't want to hear it, she just wanted to get out and doesn't care about what happened there - "That's enough" (P13)
- "Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often" (P14)
- Stanley knows of Blanche's drinking habits
- "The boy - the boy died" (P15)
- The first hint at what happened to Allan.
- "She pours half a tumbler of whisky and tosses it down. She carefully replaces the bottle and washes out the tumbler in the sink."(P7)
- Scene 2
- "She didn't show you no papers..." (P16)
- Stanley doesn't believe that Blanche is telling the truth about Belle Reve
- "swindled" (P17)
- accusing Blanche?
- "swindled" (P17)
- Stanley doesn't believe that Blanche is telling the truth about Belle Reve
- "Napoleonic code (P17)
- "My head is swimming" (P17)
- Stella is clearly intelligent and putting on a Southern Belle act to please Stan
- Scene 2
- "She didn't show you no papers..." (P16)
- Stanley doesn't believe that Blanche is telling the truth about Belle Reve
- "swindled" (P17)
- accusing Blanche?
- "swindled" (P17)
- Stanley doesn't believe that Blanche is telling the truth about Belle Reve
- "Napoleonic code (P17)
- "My head is swimming" (P17)
- Stella is clearly intelligent and putting on a Southern Belle act to please Stan
- "My head is swimming" (P17)
- "You think she got them out of a teacher's pay?" (P17)
- Stanley thinks Blanche is lying, when really he just doesn't understand
- On of his many "acquaintance"'s (P18) will be able to tell him the truth
- "I've got nothing to hide" (P20)
- This is untrue, Blanche has already been hiding her drinking habits.
- "She's going to have a baby" (P23)
- Stella asked Stanley not to say this
- "She didn't show you no papers..." (P16)
- "My head is swimming" (P17)
- "You think she got them out of a teacher's pay?" (P17)
- Stanley thinks Blanche is lying, when really he just doesn't understand
- On of his many "acquaintance"'s (P18) will be able to tell him the truth
- "I've got nothing to hide" (P20)
- This is untrue, Blanche has already been hiding her drinking habits.
- "She's going to have a baby" (P23)
- Stella asked Stanley not to say this
- "She didn't show you no papers..." (P16)
- Scene 3
- "Stanley's the only one of his crowd that's likely to get anywhere" (P27)
- Stella believes this to be true, but considering how Stanley acts - it isn't
- "I'm not accustomed to having more than one drink..." (P29)
- "she's somewhat older than I..." (P30)
- Blanche starts the relationship off with Mitch by telling lies
- "coloured paper lantern... Put it over the light bulb... I can't stand a naked light bulb" (P30)
- Blanche is creating a stage for herself
- She doesn't want Mitch to see her as she truly is
- Blanche starts the relationship off with Mitch by telling lies
- "Stella hasn't been so well lately" (P30)
- "These are love-letters..." (P21)
- "Stanley's the only one of his crowd that's likely to get anywhere" (P27)
- Scene 4
- "In my opinion? You're married to a madman! (P36)
- Blanche sees Stanley for how he truly is, Stella sees a perfect version of him and is too in lust with him to see anything else.
- "thinking I'd meet someone worth a million dollars... Shep Huntleigh" (P37)
- This is the start of the elaborate lies Blanche tells about Shep, and the saviour that she makes him out to be.
- "Y'know how indifferent I am to money." (P38)
- Goldigger
- "thinking I'd meet someone worth a million dollars... Shep Huntleigh" (P37)
- This is the start of the elaborate lies Blanche tells about Shep, and the saviour that she makes him out to be.
- "thinking I'd meet someone worth a million dollars... Shep Huntleigh" (P37)
- Goldigger
- "Stanley enters casually with his packages" (P41)
- He has been listening to the whole conversation, and enters - lying about when he arrived
- "In my opinion? You're married to a madman! (P36)
- Scene 5
- "Myself, myself, for being such a liar!" (P42)
- Blanche's whole life is based on lies
- "You ain't pulling the wool over my eyes!" (P42)
- Ironic as Stanley says that no woman can fool him, women are naieve
- Steve cannot deceive Eunice
- "Virgo is the virgin." (P44)
- Blanche has been with people back at Laurel, as well as being married - she is certainly not a virgin anymore and Stanley knows this
- "You must've got pretty close if you could smell it" (P44)
- Blanche has been with people back at Laurel, as well as being married - she is certainly not a virgin anymore and Stanley knows this
- Stanley is trying to get Blanche to admit to her past in Laurel
- "I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick" (P45)
- She fits a role that has expired (Tragic character)
- Beginning to admit what happened in Laurel with men
- "I've got to be good and keep my hands off children." (49)
- "I'm one of those poor relations you've heard about" (P48)
- Plays on her wealth to get attention from men
- "I've got to be good and keep my hands off children." (49)
- "Myself, myself, for being such a liar!" (P42)
- Scene 6
- "I was somewhat flattered that you - desired me!" (P51)
- Mitch is a lot more respectable than the other men she has met in New Orleans, he is more like the men at home - which Blanche has more experience wirh
- "There's no privacy here" (P55)
- Blanche is so uncomfortable in this space because she struggles to hide herself
- "A few moments later-A shot!" (P57)
- There is an insight into why she wants a male companion
- She is sensitive and suffers flashbacks
- Wants sympathy from Mitch?
- "I was somewhat flattered that you - desired me!" (P51)
- Scene 7
- "He thought she had never been kissed by more than a fellow!" (P59)
- Stanley knows that Blanche has lied to Mitch
- "She pulled the wool over your eyes as much as Mitch!" (P59)
- Links to how Stanley said no one would ever pull the wool over his eyes
- Stanley is too smart to be deceived by Blanche's act
- "...A seventeen-year-old boy- she'd gotten mixed up with!" (P60)
- The truth about Blanche is finally being found out
- It's possible that some of the things he said are partly true" (P61)
- Stella struggles to accept the way thet Blanche has been acting
- She wants to protect Blanche now, but she doesn't later
- "I'll stop at 25" (P62)
- Stella knows the Blanche is sensitive about her age
- She wants to protect Blanche now, but she doesn't later
- Blanche is a lot older than she says
- "He thought she had never been kissed by more than a fellow!" (P59)
- Scene 8
- "Nothing, nothing, nothing!" (P65)
- Stella won't admit what Stanley has said to her
- "Nothing, nothing, nothing!" (P65)
- Scene 9
- "hiding the bottle in the closet... dabbing her face with cologne and powder" (P70)
- She wants to hide her true self from Mitch
- "I like it dark, The dark is comforting to me." (P72)
- Blanche likes to hide in the dark, she doesn't want to show herself to Mitch
- "I don't want realism... I'll tell you what I want. magic!" (P72)
- Blanche doesn't like living in the real world
- "hiding the bottle in the closet... dabbing her face with cologne and powder" (P70)
- Scene 10
- "Not once did you pull any wool over this boy's eyes!" (P79)
- Stanley is obsessed with finding out the truth about Blanche
- "Not once did you pull any wool over this boy's eyes!" (P79)
- Scene 11
- "I always did say that men are callous things with no feelings" (P82)
- Stanley seems to think nothing about ****** Blanche
- "I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley" (P83)
- Stella chooses her husband over her sister
- Blanche's last hope of support vanishes and she is left entirely alone
- "Must we go through that room" (P86)
- Blanche doesn't want a reminder of what happened, she wants to avoid it
- "unless its the paper lantern you want..." (P87)
- Stanley is ripping down Blanche's fantasy, he's getting what he wants - his wife back and Blanche leaving.
- "Blanche extends her hands towards the doctor" (P89)
- "I always did say that men are callous things with no feelings" (P82)
- Scene 1
- Stage directions
- Blanche
- Stella
- Stanley
- Deception
- Fantasy
- Light/Beauty
- Drinking
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