Scene 2 1.Why is Stella taking Blanche out for the evening? How does Stanley feel about it?

2.At the beginning of the scene, Blanche is bathing. What do you think her bathing symbolizes?

3.According to Stanley, what is the Napoleonic Code? Why is it significant to him?

4.What has actually happened to Belle Reve?

5.What does Blanche tell Stanley about illusion and truth? What truth does she tell Stanley?

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret