Quotes Flashcards
‘[Outside a train approaches. They are silent…He wears a undershirt and grease-stained seer-sucker pants…licking his lips…he turns stealthily about]’
Scene 4, pg 46
(after stanley overhears blanche) ‘[light fades away…the blue piano and trumpet and drums is heard]’
End of Scene 4, pg 48
‘I am one hundred per cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t you ever call me a Polack’
Scene 8, pg 79
Blanches use of costume
Scene 1, pg 3
Scene 10, pg 90.
Stanley breaks Blanche’s illusion by pointing out that she is wearing a ;worn out Mardi Gras outfit, rented for 50 cents from some rag picker!’
Scene 10, pg 94
Blanche comes out in a ‘red satin robe’ and makes Stanley help her dress by doing ‘some buttons’
Scene 2, pg 20
‘[the letter cascade to the floor]…Now that you’ve touched them I’ll burn them!’
Scene 2, pg 23
Stanley’s ‘silk pyjamas’ which he ‘wore on his wedding night’
Scene 10, pg 94
Stanley and Blanche’s struggle over the radio. He ‘tosses the instrument out of the window’
Scene 3, pg 31 and 35
‘Shadows’ cornering blanche.
Scene 10, pg 94
Stanley advances and blanche ‘moves backwards through the door into the bedroom’ instead of running away.
Scene 10, pg 96
Stanley ‘hurls a plate to the floor’ and asserts ‘remember what Huey Long said - Every Man is a King! And I am the king around here, so don’t forget it!’
Scene 8, pg 77
