Quotations Flashcards
What dialogue in Scene Four shows Blanche and Stella talking in metaphors about sexual desire.
Blanche: “that rattle-trap streetcar”
Stella: “Haven’t you ever ridden on that streetcar?”
Blanche: “It brought me here”
What does Blanche say to the young collector in Scene Five? What is it an example of?
“You make my mouth water”
A sexual innuendo
What quote from Scene Four shows Stella talking about her own passion?
“But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark - that sort of make everything else seem - unimportant”
What quote in Scene Ten shows Stanley contemplating sex with Blanche
“Come to think of it - maybe you wouldn’t be bad to - interfere with”
While showing Stanley paperwork proving that she lost Belle Reve due to foreclosure on its mortgage in Scene Two, what quote shows that Blanche is the last in a long line of ancestors who cannot express their sexual desire in a healthy fashion?
“[…]piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications—to put it plainly!”
In Scene Two, what quote shows that Blanche looks down on Stanley for not being able to appreciate the finer things in life. Yet, at the same time, acknowledges that the DuBois clan can no longer afford luxuries or delude themselves with ideas of social grandeur.
“Oh, I guess he’s just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now that we’ve lost Belle Reve.”
In Scene Eight, when Stanley finally snaps and calls Blanche out for being a bigot. What quote shows that Stanley is a part of the ‘New America’?
“I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.”
Blanche’s final, ironic, words in the play.
“Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
In Scene Nine, what does Mitch tell Blanche that shows his love and respect for his mother and his condemnation of Blanche?
“You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother”
What metaphor shows Blanche as a tarantula praying on men?
“Yes, a big spider! That’s where I brought my victims”
