Scene 8 Flashcards
“Dismal birthday supper” pg 76
Awkward between them - tension between characters
foreshadows something bad will happen
her birthday will be ruined
“Making a pig out of himself” pg 77
uncivilised
difference in backgrounds
“Disgustingly greasy” pg 77
Insulting him
Gaining control
“Pig – Polack – Disgusting – Vulgar – greasy… don’t ever talk that way” pg 77
Threatening - outburst - sick and tired of insults - unfairness
When someone challenges authority he gets angry
Don’t want them to say as inferior
“I am the king around here” pg 77
Saying he has a higher status - as a man
patronizing
Has a fragile ego
reminding them that although he had a different background he isn’t inferior
“Sweet when we can make noise in the night” pg 78
manipulative - knows what stellas weakness is and uses it as an advantage
knows what she likes
“Coloured lights going” pg 78
the relationship is based on sexual desire
making blanche seem annoying
once shes gone they can go back to what they were
“One hundred per cent American born and raised” pg 78
gets insulted as ‘polack’ - bit sympathtic
has right to be angry
born + raised in America but still considered immigrant
hypocrisy - wants equality but doesn’t treat Stella like that
“Greatest country on earth, proud as hell of it” pg 78
proud to be an american
“Ticket back to laurel” pg 80
sarcastic - cruel gift - on her birthday
pre planned destruction
lack of humanity in stanley
wants her to leave and destroy her life
“Don’t forget all that you took off her” pg 81
Stanley is remorseless - destroying her
doesn’t regret what he did
Exposed real blanche - revealed all lies + truth
“You needn’t be so cruel to someone alone as she is” pg 81
Defending Blanche
Stanley has taken away mitch + stella already
shes got no one left
“I pulled you down them columns pg 81
stanley brought/ dragged her down and pulled her down to his level
a reminder of how she was a higher status
illusion for belle reve
warped manipulative - Stellas weird sexual desires
Shes submissive - enjoys being pushed down
bizarre - grotesque - doesn’t seem like love
“[Varsouviana is heard…sinister rapidity]” pg 82
last bit of hope is now gone
future is destroyed by stanley
simialr to when alan died
