A Streetcar Named Desire

In this scene, ______.

Stella, as she came down the stairs, looked at Stanley with _______.

Stanley enters the apartment, sizes Blanche up, and makes small talk with her, treating her _______ while she nervously tries to engage with him. He offers Blanche a drink, but she declines, saying that she rarely drinks. Stanley proceeds to change his sweaty T-shirt in front of Blanche, ______.

Stella’s mention of the loss of Belle Reve seems to convince Stanley that Blanche’s emotional frailty is an act contrived to ______. He thinks Blanche has swindled Stella out of her rightful share of the estate, which means that he has been swindled. Looking for a bill of sale, Stanley angrily pulls all of Blanche’s belongings out of her trunk. To him, Blanche’s glitzy evening dresses, feather boas, fur stoles, and costume jewelry look expensive, and he assumes _______.

Stanley accuses the sisters of ________ because of his heritage and manners. He wants to ensure they understand that _________. The eruption of raw emotions creates fear in the sisters.

Blanche says that Stanley is common and bestial. He has animal habits and is a "survivor of the ________." She pleads with Stella to remember some of the advances of civilization and not to "hang back with the_____."

In the original play, Blanche's husband is ______.

Blanche tells a string of lies as Stanley invades her space in her bedroom. This is the final straw for Stanley: he has had enough of her lies and tricks. This scene is right before Stanley Kowalski is ______.

The movie adaptation implies that Stella will no longer trust her husband, and might actually leave him. However, in Tennessee Williams' original play, the story ends with ________.