Part 1: Using the passage above, answer the following questions in your books.
Part 2: Write a 1-paragraph analysis of this passage and post it on the blog post.
STANLEY: When we first met, me and you, you thought I was common. How right you was, baby. I was common as dirt. You showed me the snapshot of the place with the columns. I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them colored lights going! And wasn't we happy together, wasn't it all okay till she showed here?
[Stella makes a slight movement. Her look goes suddenly inward as if some interior voice had called her name. She begins a slow, shuffling progress from the bedroom to the kitchen, leaning and resting on the back of the chair and then on the edge of a table with a blind look and listening expression. Stanley, finishing with his shirt, is unaware of her reaction] (p. 137).
Part 2: Write a 1-paragraph analysis of this passage and post it on the blog post.
- What is Stanley's attitude? Identify an adjective and explain why.
- What connections can you make to the social historical context of the time period?
- What could the "colored lights" symbolize?
- Why might Williams have written Stella to react in this way? What impression does the audience get of Stella?
STANLEY: When we first met, me and you, you thought I was common. How right you was, baby. I was common as dirt. You showed me the snapshot of the place with the columns. I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them colored lights going! And wasn't we happy together, wasn't it all okay till she showed here?
[Stella makes a slight movement. Her look goes suddenly inward as if some interior voice had called her name. She begins a slow, shuffling progress from the bedroom to the kitchen, leaning and resting on the back of the chair and then on the edge of a table with a blind look and listening expression. Stanley, finishing with his shirt, is unaware of her reaction] (p. 137).