Scene 1 Quotations Flashcards
STELLA (STAGE DIRECTIONS)
A gentle woman about twenty-five, and of the background obviously quite different from her husbands.’
STANLEY (STAGE DIRECTIONS)
‘He heaves a package at her. She cries out in protest but manages to catch it.’
BLANCHE (STAGE DIRECTIONS/SHOCK)
‘Her expression is one of a shocked disbelief’
BLANCHE (STAGE DIRECTIONS)
‘Her appearance is incongruous to the setting.’
BLANCHE (STAGE DIRECTIONS/ APPERANCE)
‘She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and ear- rings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she was arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party.’
BLANCHE (STAGE DIRECTIONS/ LIGHT)
‘Her delicate beauty must avoid strong light.’
BLANCHE (STAGE DIRECTIONS/ MOTH)
‘There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes that suggests a moth.’
BLANCHE (STAGE DIRECTIONS/DRINK)
‘She springs up and crosses to it, and removes a whiskey bottle. She pours a half tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down.’
BLANCHE (ILLUSION)
‘But don’t you look at me, Stella, no, no, no not till later, not till I’ve bathed and rested.’
BLANCHE (LIGHT)
‘Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!’
BLANCHE (CRUELTY)
‘I thought you would never come back to this horrible place!’
BLANCHE (ALCOHOL)
‘I know you must have some liquor on the place! Where could it be, I wonder? Oh, I spy, I spy!
BLANCHE (ALCOHOL)
‘Now, don’t get worried, your sister hasn’t turned into a drunkard, she’s just all shaken up and hot and tired.’
BLANCHE (CRUELTY)
‘What are you doing in a place like this?’
BLANCHE (CRUELTY)
‘Why, that you had to live in these conditions.’
BLANCHE (FANTASY/ILLUSION)
‘I was so exhausted by all I’d been through my nerves broke. I was on the verge of -lunacy.. so he suggested I take a leave of absence.’
BLANCHE (ALCOHOL)
‘No, one’s my limit.’
BLANCHE (FLATTERY)
‘You haven’t said a word about my appearance.’
BLANCHE (LIGHT)
‘Daylight never exposed so total a ruin!’
BLANCHE (CRUELTY)
But you -you’ve put on some weight, yes you’re just as plump as little partridge!’
BLANCHE (FLATTERY)
‘I want you to look at my figure! You know I haven’t out on one ounce in ten years, Stella?’
BLANCHE (DEROGATORY)
‘Polacks?’
BLANCHE (LONELINESS)
‘I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone! Because - as you might have noticed - I’m not very well…’
STELLA (STANLEY CLASS COMPARISON)
‘You’ll get along just fine together, if you’ll try not to - well - compare him with men that we went out with at home.’
STELLA (STANLEY)
‘Yes. A different species.’
STELLA (STANLEY’S DIFFERENCES)
'’But of course there were things to adjust myself to later on.’
STELLA (DEPENDANCE ON STANLEY)
‘I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night…when he’s away for a week I nearly go wild!…and when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.’
BLANCHE (HER STRUGGLE AT BELLE REVE)
‘I stayed and struggled! You came to New Orleans and looked out for yourself! I stayed at Belle Reve and tried to hold it together.’
BLANCHE (BELLE REVE)
‘You were the one that abandoned Belle Reve, not I! I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost dies for it!’
BLANCHE (THE LOSS OF BELLE REVE)
“The loss - the loss”
BLANCHE (DEATHS AT BELLE REVE)
“I, I, I took the blows in my face! All of those deaths! The long parade to the grave yard!”
BLANCHE (FUNERALS AT BELLE REVE)
“Funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet but deaths - not always.”
BLANCHE (GRIM REAPER)
“Why, the grim reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep… Stella.” “Belle Reve was his headquarters!”.
BLANCHE (RESENTMENT TOWARDS STELLA)
“Yes, accuse me? Sit there and stare at me, thinking I let the place go! Where were you? in bed with your Polak.”
STANLEY (STAGE DIRECTIONS)
Stanley throws the screen door open of the kitchen open and comes in.
STANLEY (RELATIONSHIP WITH WOMEN)
The power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens…. That bares his emblem of the gawdy sea bearer.
STANLEY (LIQUOR)
“Liquor goes fast in hot weather”.
STANLEY (ON BLANCHES DRINKING HABITS)
Some people rarely touch it but it touches them often.
STANLEY (INFORMAL LANGUAGE)
“You going to shack up here?”
BLANCHE (POLKA)
The music of the polka rises up, faint in the distance.
