Elysian Fields Avenue

They spend the walk there with Bryan shuffling along awkwardly and Denise failing to get a positive response to her flirting. By the time they get to Molly’s Shack Bryan is tense and Denise is starting to rethink her master plan yet they still slide into opposite ends of a booth and pick up their menus. For the first time that night Bryan starts the conversation, “what are you hungry for?” Denise sighs in relief at the respite from awkward silence. “I’m just getting the usual. What about you?”…

Wife’s Denial I watched him. My eyes followed him as he took every single sip. “You really shouldn't drink that much you know,” I said softly, almost like I was afraid of him. He didn’t bother glancing up or acknowledging what I said and kept drinking. Tonight was the dinner party, where we announce our baby’s gender to our friends. Everyone was coming over to our house at half past seven and I haven't gotten ready still. My arms were painted, colours of black and purple. “I can’t let anyone see…

Those who can’t provide one way will provide another. Due to the need of an attorney, Mr. Cunningham pays through the only way he can: through an entailment which he provides stove wood, hickory nuts, and other farm produce. Asking why Mr. Cunningham pays back with food and other farm goods, Atticus answers Scout , “ Because that’s the only way he can pay me. He has no money” (Lee 27). This quote explains that through the difficult aftermath of the Great Depression, most people lost what little…

I’m finally home. It has been a difficult week at work and it is nice to feel the long shag carpet between my toes when I walk into my living room. That and the light blue walls are warm and inviting. Give me five minutes in my well-worn easy chair and all the stress of work will be a distant memory. As I was relaxing and flipping through the TV channels I saw that a volcano near my house may erupt. Not only is it going to erupt, but it is predicted to be so big it may bring another ice age…

1. Introduce your play using a brief review of facts (as found in Script Analysis, pages 7-8) to explain what is happening, who is it happening to, when it is happening, where it is happening, why it is happening and how it is happening. In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche visits her sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley, out in New Orleans to escape from her life in Mississippi. During her stay we find that Stella and Stanley do not have a very healthy relationship. We also find that Blanche…