A Streetcar Named Desire Name Vivian Dong Scenes 9 & 10 Discussion Questions Milstead Directions: Answer in complete sentences and use evidence from the text to support your responses. Your answers must include a blended direct quote to support your answer. Work must be typed and submitted to turnitin.com by 7:20 a.m. on the due date!!! Scene 9 How does Blanche try to laugh off the way Mitch comes to visit? Mitch comes to visit Blanche still dressed in his work clothes and unshaved. Blanche disregards his poor effort in his looks because “You’ve stopped that polka tune that I had caught in my head” (William 113). What does he mean when he asks Blanche if she’s boxed out of her mind? Before Mitch asks that, Blanche said “...That… …show more content…
He is making sexual advances toward Blanche. He wants to end their conflict and become friends in celebration of recent events. What does Blanche mean when she says she “cast her pearls before swine”? Blanche is finally realizing her worths, she tells Stanley “Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness…” (126). She refuses to sleep with Stanley because she values herself too much to ever be with a man like him. What is the symbolic meaning or significance of the prostitute and the drunkard? It represents Stanley and Blanche. Stanley is seen as a drunk and Blanche is considered a prostitute because she has slept with a lot of men. The prostitute “... rolled a drunkard” (128) which means she tried to seduce him, the drunkard then assaults her. What does Stanley mean when he says, “We’ve had this date with each other since the beginning.” Stanley is referring to their sexual tension/ attraction that sparked upon their first interaction. He has been wanting to have sex with Blanche since he first met her. What does Stanley do what he does to Blanche? What is the symbolic meaning of