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.
    • 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?
      • "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?
            • "Napoleonic code (P17)
              • "My head is swimming" (P17)
                • Stella is clearly intelligent and putting on a Southern Belle act to please Stan
            • "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
      • "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
    • 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)
      • 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.
        • "Stanley enters casually with his packages" (P41)
          • He has been listening to the whole conversation, and enters - lying about when he arrived
      • 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)
      • 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?
      • 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
      • Scene 8
        • "Nothing, nothing, nothing!" (P65)
          • Stella won't admit what Stanley has said to her
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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)
    • Stage directions
    • Blanche
    • Stella
    • Stanley
    • Deception
    • Fantasy
    • Light/Beauty
    • Drinking

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