Streetcar scenes 7-11
- How does Williams tend to end scenes, especially scene 8,9, and 10? Tragic? Suspenseful?
- Streetcar is divided into eleven scenes rather than the traditional act and scene divisions in drama. What is the effect of this structure?
- What are the moral or ethical lessons to be found in this play?
- Blanche and Stanley are opposite characters and symbols of conflicting ideals. However, in what ways are these two characters similar? How does their similarities effect that action of the play?
- How important is the final scene (eleven)? What does it add to the play? Why not just end with the rape scene in scene ten?
- How does Williams use sound and lighting as dramatic devices?
Streetca Scences 7-11