STREERTCAR NOTES
Why would tenesee William named the street Elysian Fields which is resting place of heroes
Mitch: sensitive, reserved, sumiso a stanley
Eunice: rough
Pablo: intimidated, lay back
Coloured woman: doesn´t get a name
Stella: away from home, wealthy, marry Stanley, light hearted, strong willed, desire
Stanley: super attractive, abusive, money, manly, Napoleonic code
Blanche: feminine, soft, desire, Cemeteries, Elysian fields,
Everything in Stella´s neighbourhood would taint Blanche´s clothes
First time Stella and blanche talk: Blanche speaks all the time- doesn´t want to give Stella the
chance to ask question
Blanche is nervous when she talks with stella (10 yrs since they have seen each other)
B needs to be with somebody, Drop school, Broke, Afraid of Stanley kicking her out
Blue piano- sad
B- uses her looks to calm men (illusion= light, make up)
Stan: believes blanche is depriving them of money (Belle Reve)
B, P43 “Everyone has something he won´t let others touch because of their intimate nature”
Stella p 74 “I am not in anything that I have a desire to get out of”
Stella p81 “” There are things that happen between a man and a woman that make everything
else seem unimportant”
Bp83 “He acts like an animal, has animal´s habits”
Stella p74 “People have got to tolerate each other´s habits, I guess”
Blanche feels shame
Stanley doesn´t think, he just acts
Blanche P92 “I never was hard or self-sufficient enough. When people are soft, soft people have
got to shimmer and glow”
Blanche P92 “I´m fading now”
Blanche p95 “I want to rest I want to breathe quietly again”
Blanche “That man is my executioner”
Blanche “And then the search light which had been turned on the world was turned off again
and never for one moment since has there been any light that´s stronger than this kitchen
candle”
