Quotations Flashcards
‘You hens cut out that conversation’
Stanley is like the wolf- ‘like a hound’, they are vulnerable, caged and defenceless
‘Is he a wolf?’
‘Poker shouldn’t be played in a house with women’
Mitch- should be protected
Women corrupted by gambling
Double standard: ‘sadly but firmly’- statement about society that saddens him, level of decency yet helpless against society
Mitch blamed violence on game rather than a societal issue, game leads to violence which women should be protected against
Social class
‘I don’t know any refined enough for your taste’
‘I pulled you down off them columns’
Nationality
‘Pig- polack- disgusting, vulgar’
‘You healthy polack’
‘American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth’
Gender
‘Delicate piece she is’
‘I am the only King around here’
‘Keep your seat’ (imperative, commanding)
Setting
‘Elysian Fields’ allegory: where souls go to rest
‘Between the L&N tracks and the river’: in between two divides
‘Blue piano’: soul, a struggle, passion
‘Anyone ever told you that you look like a young prince out of the Arabian nights?’
Blanche is a story and develops a fiction in order to sustain herself, reference to Sulten who kills virgins, Stanley rep. the male oppressor, seemingly has to charm in order to survive
Violence
Aggression often related to sex and desire- foreshadowing events of volatility and violent passion, Stella and Stanley passionate and abusive relationship and perils that occur as a result, ‘crazy about each other’- co dependence and metal instability ‘I was sort of thrilled by it’
‘Vivid slices of watermelon’ ‘whisky bottles’ - intense contrast of sweetness/ vibrancy vs harshness; Stanley ‘lurchs up and tosses watermelon rinds to the floor’
‘Something about her uncertain manner, as well as her clothes, that suggests a moth’
Fragility and delicacy
Dramatic contrast to Stanley, like a moth is attracted to light, Blanche is to danger, Stanley described as more aggressive and predatory creatures: ‘ape like’ and moving ‘stealthily’
