ASND quotes Flashcards
stanley
‘he heaves the package at her’
‘he sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications’
‘how about my supper huh?’
‘napoleonic code’ (repetition)
‘feathers and furs…solid gold dress…fox pieces’
‘hurls…jerks…kicks’
‘if i didnt know you were my wifes sister id get ideas about you’
‘why dont you women go up and sit with eunice’
‘[yelling] sit down!’
‘[he advances and disappears. there is the sound of a blow]’
‘[they come together with low and animal moans…lifts her off her feet and bears her into the dark flat]’
‘stanleys always smashed things’
‘bestial…animal…ape-like’
‘shes not staying here after tuesday… bought her a ticket myself’
‘i dont know any refined enough for your taste’
‘[he hurls a plate to the floor]… i am the king around here’
‘the way that it was… i pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it…wasnt we happy… til she showed here’
‘[he is with her now, supporting her with his arm]’
‘there isnt a goddam thing but imagination… and lies and conceit and tricks’
‘[his mouth slowly curing into a grin]’
‘weve had this date with eachother from the beginning]’
‘[tearing it off the lightbulb…she cries out as if the lantern was herself]’
‘ill kill you [he lunges and strikes at stanley]’ ‘hold this bone headed cry baby’ ‘[mitch collapses at the table, sobbing]’
‘[he kneels beside her and his fingers find he opening of her blouse]’
blanche
‘incongruous to the setting…white suit…fluffy bodice…earrings of pearl…white gloves’
‘streetcar named desire…transfer to cemeteries’
‘what are you doing in a place like this’ to stella
‘you just have to watch around the hips a little’
‘polacks’
‘fought for it,bled for it, almost died for it’
‘funerals are pretty compared to deaths… death is expensive… grim reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep’
‘soaking in a hot tub’
‘feathers and furs…solid gold dress…fox pieces’
‘red satin robe… scarlet satin robe’
‘the blind are- leading the blind’
‘shes somewhat older than i’
‘lunacy, absolute lunacy… youre married to a madman!
‘i dont want realism… i want magic’
‘men dont even admit your existence unless they are making love to you’
‘put a paper lantern over the light’
‘he hasnt gotten a thing but a goodnight kiss’
‘but ive got to be good and keep my hands off children’
‘voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?’
‘old fashioned ideals’
‘a boy, just a boy… softness and tenderness which wasnt like a mans’
‘a seventeen year old- shed gotten mixed up with’
‘[tight artificial smile]’
‘candles arent safe’
‘the dark is comforting to me’
‘intimacies with strangers was all i seemed able o fill my empty heart’
‘i didnt lie in my heart’
‘soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown’
‘slams the mirror face down with such violence that the glass cracks’
‘beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart… arent taken away’
‘she smashes a bottle on the table and faces him, clutching the broken top]’
‘this place is a trap’
‘when i die, im going to die on the sea’
‘i dont know you. i want to be left alone please’
‘[tearing it off the lightbulb…she cries out as if the lantern was herself]’
‘i have always depended on the kindness of strangers’
stella
‘[he advances and disappears. there is the sound of a blow]’
‘[they come together with low and animal moans…lifts her off her feet and bears her into the dark flat]’
‘youre making much too much fuss about this…hes really very, very, very ashamed of himself’
‘i was- sort of- thrilled by it’
‘stanleys always smashed things’
‘you take it for granted that i am in something i want to get out of’
‘mr kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself to think of anything else’
‘people like you abused her and forced her to change’
‘[stella has been crying]’
‘i couldnt believe her story and go on living with stanley’
‘dont let them hurt her… oh god what have i done to my sister’
‘[she sobs with inhuman abandon]’
minor characters
‘you all are married. But ill be alone when she goes’ - mitch
‘[with awkward courtesy]’ - mitch
‘sensitive look’ - mitch
‘poker shouldnt be played in a house with women’ - mitch
‘[steve comes down nursing a bruise on his forehead]’
‘[the young man laughs uncomfortably… without waiting for him to accept she… presses her lips to his]’
‘are you laughing at me?’ -mitch
‘you need somebody. And i need somebody too’
‘you ought to lay off his liquor. he says you been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat’ - mitch
‘he tears the paper lantern off the light bulb’ - mitch
‘what i been missing all summer’
‘youre not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother’ - mitch
‘dont ever believe it. life has got to go on’ - eunice
‘ill kill you [he lunges and strikes at stanley]’ ‘hold this bone headed cry baby’ ‘[mitch collapses at the table, sobbing]’ - mitch
‘[returning silently to their places around the table…this game is seven card stud]’ - steve
other
‘[elysian fields…faded white stairs…atmosphere of decay]’
‘[Two women, one white and one coloured]’
‘[polka music]’
‘[lurid reflections…shadows are of a grotesque and menacing form’
‘[inhuman voices like cries in a jungle]’
