Streetcar Named Desire Movie Questions
Scene One
1. TF: Steve had to get himself a poor boy's sandwich because the colored woman
neglected to make a hot supper.
2. TF: Stella belongs to a bowling league.
3. TF: Blanche is an English schoolteacher from Mississippi.
4. TF: Blanche was astounded by Stella's living conditions.
5. TF: Blanche thought Stella looked ruinous.
6. TF: Stella doesn't have a maid because Stanley is a Pole.
7. TF: Stella cautioned Blanche not to compare Stanley with other men.
8. TF: Stanley doesn't know that Blanche has arrived at Elysian Fields.
9. TF: Because Blanche's "pitiful salary" was not able to pay the mortgage for the
plantation, Belle Reve was lost.
10. TF: Stanley understood that Blanche might see him as "the unrefined type."
Scene Two
1. So that they wouldn't have to hang around the house on poker night, where did
Stella and Blanche go [for dinner]?
2. Who, under the Napoleonic code, wanted to have a gander at the bill of sale for
Belle Reve?
3. Why was the Napoleonic code brought into the conversation?
4. TF: Stanley found the pirate's map in Blanche's treasure chest.
5. TF: Stanley was not sucked in by Blanche's spell.
6. Sending Stella out for a lemon-coke was a ploy to accomplish what?
7. TF: Blanche, in reaction to Stanley handling her love letters, expresses a certain
amount of disdain towards him.
8. What caused Blanche to open her eyes?
Scene Three
1. What did Blanche really mean by wondering if Mitch were a wolf?
2. Stella feels Stanley is "the only one of his crowd that's likely to get anywhere"
because of his what?
3. According to Blanche, what was a prerequisite for sincerity?
4. What does the name Blanche DuBois stand for?
5. What lie did Blanche tell Mitch?
6. Mitch figured Blanche taught what subject?
7. Why did the men have to restrain Stanley?
8. TF: Blanche and Stella went to Eunice Hubbell's as a respite.
9. TF: Stella and Stanley made up.
10. Blanche thanks whom for his kindness?
Scene Four
1. According to Blanche, how was Stella insane?
2. Interpret "powder-keg" within the context of the story.
3. TF: People, according to Stella, have got to tolerate each other's habits.
4. Why did Shep Huntleigh come into the conversation?
5. TF: Blanche believes in being straight forward when persuing money.
6. TF: Blanche believes that fast sex will satisfy the genteel man.
7. TF: Stella became enraged when her sister asserted that Stan was less than plain,
common, and ordinary; that he was downright bestial.
8. What is the "flag" of which Blanche speaks?
Scene Five
1. How is Blanche being a liar?
2. What sign dotes on noise?
3. What provoked Blanche to worry about gossip from Laurel?
4. TF: Blanche is withholding a goodnight kiss because she wants Mitch's respect.
5. TF: Blanche is open about her deceptions.
6. TF: Blanche stole a kiss from the defenseless paper boy.
7. TF: Mitch objected to Blanche's coyness.
Scene Six
1. By what law of nature was Blanche abiding?
2. TF: Alluding to the evening by the lake, Blanche felt obliged to draw the line
and not let a kiss escalate into anything more.
3. TF: Blanche wants to alter the serious mood of the evening to something more
casual.
4. TF: Blanche encouraged Mitch to use his hands exploringly.
5. Why does Blanche have to tolerate Stanley?
6. TF: Stanley professed himself to be Blanche's executioner.
7. What did Blanche discover about her first lover, Allan, whom she married?
8. TF: On the dance floor, Blanche whispered sweet words of love, kindness, and
forgiveness in Allan's ear, signifying a new beginning for their marriage.
9. TF: When Mitch proposed to Blanche, her heart said "yes," but her head said,
"no."
Scene Seven
1. TF: Calling Blanche "Her Majesty" is an example of sarcasim.
2. TF: That Stella and Blanche were reared differently from Stanley was a point
reiterated to him.
3. What was lie number one?
4. What was lie number two?
5. TF: Stella knew that her sister was not picture perfect.
6. What kind of ticket did Stanley buy for Blanche?
7. Blanche's rested posture turns into what mood?
Scene Eight
1. TF: Stanley helps clear the table like a gracious host.
2. TF: Blanche took being stood up as an insult.
3. Into which room does Blanche run after Stanley gives her her birthday present?
4. TF: Stella accuses Stanley of being cruel towards Blanche.
5. TF: After Stanley reminds Stella that she used to be happy with a common man,
she expressed her inner desire to be reunited with upper class people.
Scene Nine
1. TF: Blanche, being so lonely and desperate for male companionship, forgave
Mitch momen-tarily.
2. TF: Allan's death periodically haunts Blanche.
3. TF: Mitch overlooks and excuses Blanche's liquor habit because he's too timid to
confront her.
4. What does Blanche utter when Mitch tears off the paper lantern from the light
bulb?
5. TF: What Blanche calls "magic," Mitch calls "malarkey."
6. Blanche filled her empty heart with "intimacies with strangers" to protect herself
from what?
7. TF: Blanche took Mitch's rejection of her with composure and Stoic silence.
Scene Ten
1. What lie does Blanche tell Stanley?
2. What would make Blanche weep with joy?
3. TF: Blanche admitted wasting her mind, spirit, and heart on lower class pigs.
4. TF: Stanley knew Mitch never returned with roses to beg for forgiveness.
5. TF: Blanche tries to fight Stanley off, but he takes her to bed anyway.
Scene Eleven
1. Blanche thinks her man from Dallas is going to take her away to the country for
rest and relaxation. What really happens to her?