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.

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