Stanley Flashcards
Start of the power struggle with Blanche
“It looks to me like you have 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 insults Blanche’s nature
“Some men are took in by this Hollywood glamor stuff and some men are not.”
Blanches impression of Stanley
“You’re simple, straightforward, and honest, a little on the primitive side I should think.”
Stanley calling Stella to come back
“Stell-lahhhh! . . . I want my baby down here. Stella, Stella!”
How Stella views her marriage to Stanley
“People have got to tolerate each other’s habits, I guess.”
How Blanche describes Stanley after the poker night
“There’s even something—sub-human—something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I’ve seen in—anthropological studies.”
Stanley and loud noise
Blanche: “I bet you were born under Aries. Aries people are forceful and dynamic. They dote on noise! They love to bang things around! You must have had lots of banging around in the army and now that you’re out, you make up for it be treating inanimate objects with such a fury!”
Stanley and New American power
“Don’t ever talk that way to me! “Pig—Polak—disgusting—vulgar—greasy!”—them kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister’s too much around here. What do you two think you are? A pair of queens? Remember what Huey Long said—“Every man is a King!” And I am the king around here, so don’t forget it!”
Stanley’s advance towards Blanche
“Shall we bury the hatchet and make it a loving-cup? Huh?”
Stanley tells Blanche what he thinks of her
“Not once did you pull any wool over this boy’s eyes. You come in here and sprinkle the place with powder and spray perfume and cover the light-bulb with a paper lantern, and lo and behold the place has turned into Egypt and you and the Queen of the Nile!”
Stanley on Stella and Blanche’s differences
‘Where are your pearls and gold bracelets?’
Stanley’s rape of Blanche
“We’ve had this date with each other
from the beginning!”
Stanley and Stella sexuality
“we can make noise in the night the way that we used to and get the colored lights going”
