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1
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how does stanley address his first line to stella

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“bellowing”

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how does stella react to stanleys bellowing

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“[mildly] dont holler at me like that”

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what does blanche say about the streetcars and how she arrived here

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they told me to take a streetcar named desire and then transfer to one called cemetries […] and get off at - elysians fields!

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4
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when do we see blanche first interact with alcohol

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she pours a half tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down

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what does blanche say showing her insecurity as she wants to look at stella but not be looked at

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now then, let me look at you. but dont you look at me, stella, no, no, no

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what does blanche call stella

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precious lamb

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what does blanche say about turning the lights off

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turn that over-light off

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how does blanche show her superiority through her education when describing stellas house

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only poe! only mr edgar allan poe! - could do it justice !

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what does stella say to blanche commenting on how chatty blanche is

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you never did give me a chance to say much

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what dies blanche say first bringing up her appearance - contradicts the fact she told stella not to look at her

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you havent said a word about my appearance

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11
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what quote about their dad shows blanche guilt tripping stella

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the summer dad died and you left us…

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what quote shows blanche begging not to be alone to stella

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i want to be near you, got to be with somebody, i cant be alone!

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13
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what quote shows stella asking blanche to not be judgmental to stanley

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if you just try not to - well - compare him with men that we went out at home

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14
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how does stella describe stanley in an almost animalistic way

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a different species

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15
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how does blanche start to manipulate stella before telling her the story of belle reave - or maybe just her own fear of judgment

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i know that youre bound to reproach me - but before you to - take into consideration - you left!

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16
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how did blanche feel physically effected by the loss of belle reave

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all the burden descended on my shoulders

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17
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how does blanche turn the blame on stella saying she wss the one who left

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but you are the one that abandoned belle reve. i stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!

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18
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where did blanche take the blows of belle reve

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i took the blows in my face and my body! all of those deaths

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19
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how does blanche describe the deaths she witnissed

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the long parade to the graveyard!

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20
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how does blanche compare funerals to deaths

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funerals are pretty compared to death

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21
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what does blanche say about the grim reaper in regards to the amount of death she witnissed

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why, the grim reaper had put up his tent on our doorstops!

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22
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how does blanche blame stellas abandonment on her desire

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where were you. in bed with your- polak!

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23
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how does stanley say that blanche does drink even if she claims she doesnt

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some poeple rarely touch it but it touches them

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24
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when do we first hear the polka music

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stan: you were married once, werent you?
[the music of the polka rises up, faint in the distance]

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25
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how does stella tell stanley to treat blanche - and how blanche likes to be treated

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and admire her dress and tell her shes lookinh wonderfull. thats important with blanche

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26
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how does stanley react to stella telling him what to do

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since when do you give me orders

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27
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how does blanche describe stanley in an insulting way

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youre simple straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side i should think

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28
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how does blanche react to stanley saying he likes a girl who lays all her cards on the table

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im ready to answer all questions. ive nothing to hideh

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29
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how does blanche describe the love letters

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poems a dead boy wrote. i hurt him

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30
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what lie about drinking does blanche tell mitch

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im not accustomed to having more than one drink

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31
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what does blanche say about light

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i cant stand a naked lightbulb

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31
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how does death bring mitch and blanche together

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both had dead lovers
“the girls dead now.”

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32
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how does stella describe stanley as animalistic when drunk

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drunk - drunk - animal thing, you!

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33
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how do stella and stanleys embrace create animalistic impression

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then they come together with low, animal moans

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34
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how does stella describe stanley links to blanche describing stella as a precious lamb

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he was as good as a lamb

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35
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how does blanche desribe stanley as amd

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in my opinion? youre married to a madman!

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36
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what does stella say implyig shes perfectly happy

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im not in anything i want to get out of

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37
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what interaction shows that stanley doesnt carry his weight around the house

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b: i wont have you cleaning up for him!
stella: then whos going to do it?

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38
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what quote shows how stellas forgiveness is bought/bribed by stanley

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this morning he gave me ten dollars to smooth things over

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39
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what quote shows that blanche believes stanley is only capable of animal force

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what such a man has to offer is animal force and he gave a wonderful exhibition of that!

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40
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how does blanche say that stanley hasnt evolved

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theres even - something - sub-human - something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! something ape like

41
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how does blanche say stsanley belings in the stone age

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thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by and there he is - stanley kowalski - survivor of the stone age

42
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what quote shows that stanleys friends want to be like him or act like him from blanches pov

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there in front of the cave, all grunting like him, and swilling and knawing and hulking! his poker night!

43
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what interaction on how eunice handles being abused shows stanley and stellas attitude

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stell: has she got the police?
stan: shes getting a drink
stell: thats much more practical!

44
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what quote from blanche is slightly patronising and presents stella/stanley as beneath her

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im compiling a notebook of quaint little words and phrases ive picked up here

45
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how deos stanley respond to blanches notebook comment implyig shes just as common as he is

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you wont pick up nothing here you aint heard before

46
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what is blanches starsign and how does she phrase it

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virgo is the virgin

47
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what metaphor compares women to butterflies in leaky roof speach

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put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings and glow.

48
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what quote from leaky roof speach talks about blanches magic and how she has to use herself for safety

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make a little temporary magic just in order to pay for one nights shelter

49
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what is the leaky roof quote

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from under one leaky roof to another leaky roof - because it was storm - all storm and i was - caught in the centre

50
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what quote shows blanches mentality that you need validation/desire to be alive

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and youve got to have your existence admitted by someone

51
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what quote shows blanche feels her beauty is failing - shows the hardship of being a women at this time

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it isnt enough to be soft. youve got to be soft and attractive. and i - im fading now!

52
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what quote shows that blanche is planning on deceiving mitch

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i want to decieve him enough to want me

53
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what quote shows that blanche wants mitch for protection in a patriarchal society

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i want to rest! i want to breathe quietly again! yes - i want mitch… very badly!

54
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what comment from blanche to the young man can be seen as sexual

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you - uh - didnt get wet in the shower?

55
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what quote from blanche to the young man in blatently innapropriate

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you make my mouth water

56
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what quote shows blanche knows the boy is too young for her

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young man! young, young, young, young man!

57
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what does blanche say to the kid about what she wants

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i want to kiss you - just once - softly and sweetly on your mouth.

58
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what quote shows that blanches desire for kids isnt something new - shes familiar with it

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ive got to be good and keep my hands off children

59
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what quote shows mythology (women who are hunted by orion)

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im looking for the pleiades, the seven sisters

60
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what quote from blanche shows her starting to suggest that stanley desires her

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perhaps in some perverse kind of way he - no!

61
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what quote shows blanche and mitch bonding over death - blanche being sincere

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you will be lonely when she passes on ownt you? i understand what that is

62
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how does blanche describe her love for allan

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all at once and much much too completely

63
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how does blanche describe her love for allan with a light metaphor

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it was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been hald in shadow thats how it struck the world for me

64
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how does blanche describe allan and her situation (disaster)

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he was in the quicksand and clutching at me - but i wasnt holding him out, i was slipping in with him

65
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how does blanceh continue the light metaphor from her love to his death

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and then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light thats stronger than this - kitchen - candle

66
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how does stanley mock blanche and stellas relationship calling blanche her majesty

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and you run our an’ get her cokes i suppose? and serve ‘em to her majesty in the tub

67
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what quote shows that stanley has spied on blanche and done research

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things i already suspected. but now i got proof from the most reliable sources

68
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what quote shows stanley rejoicing in finding dirt on blanche

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but sister blanche is no lily! ha-ha! some lily she is!

69
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what quote reveals blanches past with kids

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they kicked her out of that high school before the spring term ended […] a seventeen year old boy - shed gotten mixed up with!

70
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how does stella describe allan and blanches relationship

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i think blanche didnt just love him but worship the ground he walked on!

71
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how does stanley describe mitch in regard to blanche

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hes not going to jump in a tank with a school of sharks now!

72
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what quote shows stanley yelling at blanche and being controlling - caps

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get OUT of the BATHROOM

73
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what quote shows blanche admitting to her experience with men and also how shes never been rejected

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its the first time in my entire experience with men, and ive had a good deal of all sorts, that ive actually been stood up by anybody! ha-ha!

74
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what does stella say about stanley calling him a pig

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mr kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself to think of anything else

75
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where do we see a violent display from stanley as well as defiance from being told what to do

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[he hurls a plate to the floor] thats how ill clear the table! [he seizes her arm.] dont ever talk that way to me!

76
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what quote shows that stanley believes he is in control

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every man is a king! and i am the king around here

77
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what quote shows stanley being nostalgic or possibly wanting sex

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you remember that way that it was? them nights we had together?

78
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what quote shows blanche scared to waste the candles as they are a sign of hope? beauty? life? love?

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oh those pretty pretty little candles! oh dont burn them stella.

79
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what gift does stanley give blanche

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ticket! bakc to laurel! on the greyhound! tuesday!

80
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how does stella describe blanche and blame people like stanley for how she has turned out

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nobody, nobody was tender and trusting as she was. but people like you abused her and forced her to change

81
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how does stanley blame all thier relationship issues on blanche

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and wasnt we happy together, wasnt it all okay til she showed up here

82
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what stage direction shows how blanche drinks to avoid the polka in her mind

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the rapid, feverish polka tune the ‘varsouviana’ is heard. the music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape it

83
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what quote shows where the polka tune came from and how it is linked to her trauma

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the ‘varsouviana’? the polka tune they were playing when allan - wait ! there now, the shot ! it always stops after that

84
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what quote shows how blanche is comforted by dark

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i like it dark. the dark is comforting to me.

85
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what quote shows that blanche doesnt want reality

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i dont want realism. […] ill tell you what i want. magic ! i dont tell the truth i tell what ought to be the truth

86
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what quote shows that after allans death blanche oversexualised herself to deal with the trauma and to feel more alive

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aftre the death of allan - intimacies with strangers was all i seemed able to fill my empty heart with

87
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what quote shows how close physically blanche got to death

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i used to sit here and she used to sit over there and death was as close as you are…we didnt dare even admit we had ever heard of it!

88
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what does mitch say to blanche saying she isnt clean enough

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i dont think i want to marry you anymore […] youre not clean enough

89
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what stage direction shows that blanche has been revealed and she is layed bare now

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she has dragged her wardrobe trunk into the centre of the bedroom. it hangs open with dlowery dresses thrown accross it

90
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what quote shows stanley deciding hes gonna rape blanche

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come to think of it - maybe you wouldntbe bad to - interfere with

91
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what stage direction shows stanley carrying blanche off to assault her

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picks up her inert figure and carries her to the bed

92
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what quote shows that stella picked her husband over her sister

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i couldnt believe her story and go on living with stanley

93
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how does eunice encourage stellas choosing of stanley after the rape

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dont ever believe it. life has got ot go on

94
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what quote shows blanche obsessed with her image and purity even in death

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and ill be bureid at sea sewn up in a clean white sack

95
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what quotes from steve and pablo show stanleys friends ridiculing stanley finally

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p: this is a very bad thing
s: this is no way to do it. she shouldve been told!

96
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what quote shows mitch defending blanche against stanley

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you! you done this, all o’ your god damn interfering with things you -

97
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what quote from the matron depicts blanche as subhuman

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these fingernails have to be trimmed

98
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what quote shows blanche still relying on men after all theyve done to her

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whoever you are- i have always depened on the kindness of strangers

99
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what quote shows stanley either apolagetic or begging for sex now that theyre alone

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now, honey. now, love. now, now love. [he kneels beside her and his fingers find the opening of her bouse]

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