Setting Flashcards
first description of recurrent musical motif representing New Orleans
“the blue piano expresses the spirit of life”
alliterative description of piano in New Orleans
“tinny piano played with the infatuated fluency of brown fingers”
characteristic of New Orleans
“raffish charm”
african tastes and smells present in New Orleans
“faint redolences of banana and coffee”
Stella’s description of New Orleans
“New Orleans isn’t like other cities”
description of racial situation in New Orleans
“relatively warm and easy intermingling of races”
Eunice’s description of Belle Reve
” a great big place with white columns”§
Description of environment during rape scene
“the night is filled with inhuman voices like cries in a jungle”
Description of the kitchen in scene 3 for the poker night
The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colors of childhood’s spectrum.
music when Stanley and Stella reunite
the low-tone clarinet moans
