Scene 2 Quotations Flashcards
BLANCHE (BATHING)
It is 6 o’clock the following evening. Blanche is bathing.
STELLA (BLANCHE BATHING)
“She’s soaking in a hot tub to quiet her nerves. She’s terribly upset.”
STELLA (ON THE LOSS OF BELLE REVE)
“Oh, it had to be - sacrificed or something”.
STELLA (BLANCHE’S FLATTERY)
“And admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness!”
STANLEY (NAPOLEONIC CODE)
“In the state of Louisiana we have the napoleonic code according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and visa versa”.
(SWINDLED)
“It looks to me like you’ve been swindled, baby, and when you’re swindled under the napoleonic code I’m swindled too. And I don’t like to be swindled”.
STANLEY (GOES THROUGH BLANCHE’S STUFF)
“Open you’re eyes to this stuff! You think she got them out of a teachers pay? What’s this here? A solid gold dress, fox pieces! Genuine fox pieces, a half a mile long!”
STANLEY (GOES THROUGH BLANCHE’S JEWELLERY)
“Pearls! Ropes of them! Bracelets of solid gold too? And diamonds! A crown for an empress”.
STELLA (RESPONSE TO STANLEY’S REMARKS ON BLANCHE’S JEWELLERY)
A rhine stone tiara she wore to the costume ball/next door to glass.
STANLEY (CLASS DIFFERENCE)
The Kowalskis and the DuBois have different notions.
STANLEY (STELLA GIVING HIM ORDERS)
“Since when do you give me orders?”.
BLANCHE (FLATTERY)
“Oh in my youth I excited some admiration. But look at me now. Would you think it is possible that I once considered to be -attractive?”
STANLEY (REFUSING TO PLAY BLANCHE’S GAME)
“I don’t go in for that type of stuff”.
STANLEY (BLANCHE’S FLIRTING)
“If I didn’t know you were my wife’s sister I would get ideas about you!”
BLANCHE (STANLEY TOUCHING HER LETTERS)
“Now that you’ve touched them I’ll burn them”.
