Scene between Eunice and Stella

Blanches Diary Entry.

Dear Diary,

I have longed for love and romance ever since... well ever since i was alone and lonely. Could Mitch be the one? Must he be the one? He must be the one. I've missed the way Allan used to touch and hold me, i miss how he'd kiss my tender lips. i miss Allan. Could Mitch replace him?

I just dont want to be alone, this could be a sign from God, maybe this is my final chance with true love. I wish i could fall in love with Mitch, i want to be with him but i can't seem to get myself to fall for him. He leans to kiss me but i reject but i want him there... it doesn't make sense.

i pray to god i choose the right decision and follow my heart to my desires.

Stella and Stanley at breakfast

[Stella has gotten breakfast ready and is waiting for Stanley. Stanley walks in and sits]

Stanley: good morning baby
Stella: good morning [pauses] i hope Blanche is ok, she's not so used to this
Stanley: this? if she wants to stay under my roof she'll have to get used to whatever she's given, Stella
Stella: ok lets not start again. how'd you like your breakfast
Stanley: i like it very much [gets up and kisses her on the cheek, leaving all his used cutlery on the table] i better get moving to work

[Stella stays seated staring into open air, she thinks about her sister and frowns. Stella then washes up the dishes and goes into her room to lay]

Questions- unfisnished

Stella shows and states that she is thrilled by Stanely's violence '' i was - sort of - thrilled by it '' the pauses between her speech indicates that she is searching for a term to express her emotions and has concluded to one that shocks Blanche.

'' On our wedding night - soon as we came in here - he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing the light-bulbs with it '' this statement made my Stella shows that his violence is also a memory as well as present and the memory is a wonderful one because it was on her wedding night.

Stellas diary entry

a) Imagine that while Stella is in hospital after having the baby, she writes an entry in her diary about how she feels about returning home to Stanley and Blanche. Write this diary entry in which Stella expresses her hopes and fears for the future.




Dear Diary,


I am sat here reminiscing about how I miss my family. My admiring husband and my agonisingly loving sister. I miss them terribly, i think about them all the time, wondering what they're doing and how they're getting on together, if they're at each others throats or if they're making peace. I'm suffering severe pains from this pregnancy. I can't wait till my little baby comes out, i love it already. if it's a girl i'm going to name her Elizabeth or Florence because they're such beautiful names; Elizabeth means, God is my oath and Florence means blossoming or flourishing. Such beautiful names compromise with my such beautiful child. If i have a boy, which Stanley has been wishing so badly, i'd name him Albert or Francis. To think of it, i think Stanley will want a say in naming our child, oh how i hope he agrees with me for once on something. 


I get lonely in here sometimes, i miss Stanley's touch and his tender kisses and Blanche's flamboyant ways. As much as i love them and trust them with all my love and heart, i always have that little pestering feeling and thought in my head that they may... connect... intimately. no. no, that's almost impossible. Stanley wouldn't do that to me and i'm sure my is composed enough to know her morale. 


I want to leave. i want to leave now. i want to go home to my family and friends. this is the longest i've been with out my Stan, i've gotten used to missing Blanche but Stan and I are forever together. The wonders of what the baby is doing to me, even before it's come out. I imagine Stanley, the baby and I being a happy family, i see Stanley holding it, cooing at it and rocking it. I see us travelling together, weirdly even arguing over it. i love it. i love the idea of a family, a loving family.


I'm going to go home soon to a loving husband and a forever nagging loving sister that i adore.


Dear Diary, i shall update you with what comes to me in the future. 
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss


Yours truly,


Stella Kowalski.

Scene between Mitch, Steve and Stanley.

Mitch: So tell me Blanche's background, just out of curiosity.
Steve: [Teasing him] i think our Mitch has been hit with the arrow

Stanley: keep playin' boys, that woman seems nothin but trouble and i do pray to God you don't do nothin stupid with her. trust me Mitch, she's trouble, she's a liar, she's a thief and all
Mitch: Why Stanley! that's rude of you to be calling a little elegant lady with such words
Steve: Keep playing boys, lets not start another brawl

[ Awkward silence between Stanely and Steve, Mitch carrys on playing ]

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire was set in the 1940s in New Orleans. 

Streetcar: a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity.

Music from period:

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