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Scene 4 Flashcards

1
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Stella?

A

Hmmm?

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2
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Baby, my baby sister!

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Blanche what is the matter with you?

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3
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He’s left?

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Stan? Yes.

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4
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Will he be back?

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He’s gone to get the car greased why?

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5
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After what happened- I started to rush in after you

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I’m glad you didn’t!

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6
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What were you thinking of?

Answer me!

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Please Blanche sit down and stop yelling!

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7
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Why you must have slept with him!

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Blanche I’d forgotten how excitable you are. You’re making much too much fuss about this

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8
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Am I?

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Yes you are Blanche. I know how it must have seemed to you and I’m awful sorry it had to happen, but it wasn’t anything as serious as you seem to take it. In the first place, when men are drinking and playing poker anything can happen. It’s always a powder-keg. He didn’t know what he was doing…. He was as good as a lamb when I came back and he’s really very, very ashamed of himself.

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9
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And that–that makes it all right?

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No, it isn’t all right for anybody to make such a terrible row, but–people do sometimes. Stanley’s always smashed things. Why, on our wedding night–soon as we came in here–he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place amashing the light bulbs with it.

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10
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He did–what?

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He smashed all the light bulbs with the heel of my slipper!

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11
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And you–you let him? Didn’t run, didn’t scream?

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I was–sort of–thrilled by it.

Eunice and you had breakfast?

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12
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Do you suppose I wanted my breakfast?

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There’s some coffee left on the stove.

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13
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You’re so–matter of fact about it, Stella

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What other can I be? He’s taken the radio to get it fixed. It didn’t land on the pavement so only one tube was smashed.

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14
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And you are standing there smiling!

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What do you want me to do?

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15
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Pull yourself together and face the facts.

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What are they, in your opinion?

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16
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In my opinion? You’re married to a madman!

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No!

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17
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Yes, you are, your fix is worse than mine is! Only you’re not being sensible about it. I’m going to do something. Get hold of myself and make myself a new life!

A

Yes?

18
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But you’ve given in. And that isn’t right, you’re not old! You can get out.

A

[slowly and emphatically]:
I’m not in anything I want to get out of.

19
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What–Stella?

A

I said I am not in anything that I have a desire to get out of. Look at the mess in this room! And those empty bottles! They went through two cases last night! He promised this morning that he was going to quit having these poker parties, but you know how long such a promise is going to keep. Oh, well, it’s his pleasure, like mine is movies and bridge. People have got to tolerate each other’s habits, I guess.

20
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Is this a Chinese philosophy you’ve cultivated?

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Is what-what?

21
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This–shuffling about and mumbling–“One tube smashed–beer bottles–mess in the kitchen.”–as if nothing out of the ordinary has happened!

Are you deliberately shaking that thing in my face?

A

No

22
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I won’t have you cleaning up after him!

A

Then who’s going to do it? Are you?

23
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I? I?

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No, I didn’t think so

24
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Oh, let me think, if only my mind would function! We’ve got to get hold of some money, that’s the way out!

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I guess that money is always nice to get hold of.

25
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For both of us to get out

A

You take it for granted that I am in something I want to get out of

26
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I take it for granted that you still have sufficient memory of Belle Reve to find this place and these poker players impossible to live with.

A

Well, you’re taking entirely too much for granted.

27
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I can’t believe you’re in earnest

A

No?

28
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I understand how it happened–a little. You saw him in uniform, an officer, not here but–

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I’m not sure it would have made any difference where I saw him.

29
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Now don’t say it was one of those mysterious electric things between people! If you do I’ll laugh in your face.

A

I am not going to say anything more at all about it!

30
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All right then don’t!

A

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark–that sort of make everything else seem–unimportant

31
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What you are talking about is brutal desire–just–Desire!–the name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another….

A

Haven’t you ever ridden on that streetcar?

32
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It brought me here.–Where I’m not wanted and where I’m ashamed to be….

A

Then don’t you think your superior attitude is a bit out of place?

33
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I am not being or feeling at all superior, Stella. Believe me I’m not! It’s just this. This is how I look at it. A man like that is someone to go out with–once–twice–three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a child by?

A

I have told you I love him.

34
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Then I tremble for you! I just–tremble for you….

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I can’t help your trembling if you insist on trembling!

35
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May I–speak–plainly?

A

Yes, do. Go ahead. As plainly as you want to.

36
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Well–if you’ll forgive me–he’s common!

A

Why, yes, I suppose he is.

37
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Suppose! You can’t have forgotten that much of our bringing up, Stella, that you just suppose that any part of a gentleman’s in his nature! Not one particle, no! Oh, if he was just–ordinary! Just plain–but good and wholesome, but–no. There’s something downright–bestial–about him! You’re hating me saying this, aren’t you?

A

[coldly]:
Go on and say it all, Blanche.

38
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STANLEY

Hey! Hey, Stella!

A

Stanley!

39
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Hiya Stella! Blanche back?

A

Yes, she’s back.

40
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Hiya Blanche

A

You must’ve got under the car

41
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Those damn mechanics….HEY

A

(Hug Stanley)

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