Scene 8 Flashcards
BLANCHE
“STELLA: But people like you abused her, and forced her to change”
“STANLEY: Remember what Huey Long said – ‘Every Man is a King!’ And I am the king around here, so don’t forget it! [He hurls a cup and saucer to the floor]”
“I take hot baths for my nerves. Hydro-therapy, they call it. You healthy Polack, without a nerve in your body, of course you don’t know what anxiety feels like!”
“Stanley: Ticket! Back to Laurel! On the Greyhound!
[Varsouviana steals in softly … Blanche tries to smile … she clutches her throat and then runs into the bathroom. Coughing, gagging sounds are head]
STELLA
“Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change”
“Take me to the hospital” -> Same as Blanche’s birthday / Losing birthday, identity and voice
STANLEY
“Remember what Huey Long said – ‘Every Man is a King!’ And I am the king around here, so don’t forget it! [He hurls a cup and saucer to the floor]”
“God, honey, it’s gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way that we use to and get the coloured lights going with nobody’s sister behind the curtains to hear us”
“I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred per cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack”
“I was common as dirt … I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them coloured lights going!”
MITCH
