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Streetcar Named Desire Flashcards

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raffish charm

(blue/shadows invest scene with) lyricalism and gracefully accentuates the atmosphere of decay

infatuated fluency of brown fingers

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[STANLEY carrries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher’s]

[STELLA…a gentle young woman…background obviously quite different from her husband’s]

BLANCHE [daintly dressed…nacklace and ear-rings of pearl]

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[She pours a half tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down. She carefully replaces the bottle]

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Blanche 1:5

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[Nervously tamping cigarette] I was on the verge of - lunacy, almost!

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Blanche > Stella 1:7

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Stella 1:8

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When he’s away for a week I nearly go wild!

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Stella > Blanche 1:10

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I, I, I took the blows in my face and my body! All of thse deaths! The long parade to the graveyard!

You didn’t sream, but I saw! Saw! Saw!

Where were you. In bed with your - Polack!

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1st Monologue 1:12

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[since earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women]

[everything that is his, that bears the emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer]

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Liquor goes fast in hot weather.

Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often.

[He starts to remove his shirt]

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Stanley > Blanche 1:14

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perpetual ‘blue piano’

Stan, we’ve - lost Belle Reve!

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2:16

Stella > Stanley 2:16

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In the state of Lousinana we have the Napoleonic code (Belle Reve owndership)

(rummaging trunk) Open your eyes to thia stuff! You think she got them out of a teacher’s pay?

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Stanley > Stella 2:18

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The Kowalskis and the DuBois have different notions

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Stanley > Stella 2:19

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I don’t like pinks and creams and I never cared for wishy-washy people.

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Blanche > Stanley 2:21

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(rumaging Blanche’s trunk) What’s in the back of that little boy’s mind of yours?

Now that you’ve touched them I’ll burn them!

Poems a dead boy wrote.

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Blanche > Stanley 2:23

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(Belle Reve) exchanged the land for their epic fornications

[she pours the contents of the envelope on the table] ..I hereby endow you with them!

wonderfully fitting..in your bug, capable hands!

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2nd Monologue 2:24

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Stella for Star! How lovely to have a baby!

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2:25

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[lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colours…

yellow linoleum…electric bulb with a vivid green glass shade…dim with only light that spills between the portières]

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3:27

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I feel so hot and frazzled

[STANLEY gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh]

It makes me so mad when he does that in front of people

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Blanche > Stella 3:29

Stanley > Stella: 3:29

Stella > Blanche 3:29

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That one seems - superior to the others

Is he a wolf?

[she is unbuttoning her blouse]

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Blanche > Stella 3:30

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You’re standing in the light, Blanche!

[with girlish laughter] You ought to see their wives

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Stella 3:31

Stella > Blanche 3:31

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(cigarette case inscription)

‘And if God chose, I shall love thee better - after death! (Sonnet 43, Browning)

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Blanche > Mitch 3:33

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21
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coloured paper latern at a Chinese shop on Bourbon. Put it over the light bulb!

I can’t stand a naked lightbulb, any mire than I can a rude remark or vulgar action

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Blanche > Mitch 3:34

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Drunk – drunk – animal thing, you!

[There is the sound of a blow. STELLA cries out. BLANCHE screams]

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Stella 3:35

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Stella! [There is a pause.] My baby doll’s left me!

[with heaven-splitting violence] STELLL-AHHHHH!

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Stanley > boys 3:37

Stanley 3:38

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[The low-tone clarinet moans… They come together with low, animal moans… Her eyes go blind with tenderness]

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3:38

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[narcotized tranquility that is in the faces of Eastern idols]

[table is sloppy with remains of breakfast and the debris of the preceding night]

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powder-keg…snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing light-bulbs with it

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Stella > Blanche 4:41

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You’re married to a madman!

I said I am not in anything that I have a desire to get out of

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Blanche 4:42

Stella 4:42

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Honey, would I be here if the man weren’t married?

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Blanche (Shep Huntleigh) 4:44

29
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brutal desire - just - Desire!

..(contrastingly) It bought me here

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Blanche > Stella 4:46

30
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something – sub-human…ape-like about him

Stanley Kowalski – survivor of the stone age! Bearing the raw meat

grunting; swilling; gnawing

long way from being made in God’s image

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3rd Monologue 4:47

31
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[he grins at her]
Them darn mechanics at Fritz’s don’t know their can from third base!
[over her head he grins]

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Stanley > Stella (& Blanche) 4:48

32
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[fanning herself with a palm leaf]

…being such a liar! I’m weiting a letter to Shep..[laughs nervously and brightly, touching her throat]

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Blanche > Stella 5:49

33
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[a clatter of aluminium..there is a crash; then a relative hush]

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Euinice > Steve 5:50

Steve > Eunice 5:50

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Capricon - the Goat!
..Virgo is the Virgin.

[contemptuously] Hah!..do you happen to know someone named Shaw!..met at a hotel named the Flamingo

[BLANCHE touches the colonge-dampened handlerchief to her temples]

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Blanche > Stanley 5:51
Stanley > Blanche 5:51
5:52

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soft people have got to court the favour of hard ones
..put on..butterfly wings, ..temporary magic
..to pay for – one night’s shelter!

men don’t –don’t even admit your exsistence unless they are making love to you.

put a – paper lantern over the light
..And I – I’m fading now!

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4th monologue 5:53

36
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I want to decieve him enough to make him – want me…

Ah, me, ah, me, ah, me…

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Blanche > Stella 5:55

Blanche 5:55

37
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[she raises herself wearily to her feet and picks up the hand mirror]

I didn’t know that stars took up collections

It’s temperamental? [It flares]

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Blanche 5:56
Blanche > young man 5:56
Blanche > young man 5:56

38
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You make my mouth water

you look like a young prince out of the Arabian Nights

softly ans sweetly on your mouth. [Without waiting for him to accept]

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Blanche > young man 5:57

39
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keep my hands off children. Adios!

My Rosenkavalier!

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Blanche > young man 5:57

aware of Mitch

40
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[the utter exhaustion which only a neurasthenic personality can know]

[MITCH is stolid and depressed]

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6: 59
6: 59

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Honey, it wasn’t the kiss I was objected to..it was the other little – familiarity – that I – felt obliged to – discourage. . .

flattered that you – desired me!

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Blanche > Mitch 6:60

Blanche > Mitch 6:60

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Voulez-vous couhez avec moi ce soir? Vouz ne comprenez pas? Ah, quel dommage!

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Blanche > Mitch 6:61

43
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two hundred and seventy pounds and I’m six feet one and a half

Samson! Go on, lift me.

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Mitch > Blanche 6:63

Blanche > Mitch 6:63

44
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How old are you?

[she makes a nervous gesture]

Why do you want to know?

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Mitch > Blanche 6:65
6:65
Blanche > Mitch 6:65

45
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It was like you suddenly turned on a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow

softeness and tenderness..he was in the quicksands and clutching at me

found a room (with) two people in it…

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5th Monologue 6:66

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[Polka..minor key faint with distance]

We danced the ‘Varsouviana’! ..(he) ran out of the casino.. – a shot!

[polka music stops abruptly. BLANCHE rises stiffly.. resumes in a major key]

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6:67
Blanche (husband) > Mitch 6:67
6:67

47
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‘You digust me’ ..never for one moment since..light that’s stronger than this – kitchen – candle…

Sometimes – there’s God – so quickly!

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Blanche (husband) > Mitch 6:67

Blanche 6:68

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Her Majesty in the tub? [STELLA shrugs]

Some canary-bird, huh!

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Stanley > Stella 7:69

Stanley 7:70

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‘It’s only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea – But it wouldn’t be make-believe if you believed in me!’

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Blanche 7:70

50
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“Dame Blanche” (repetition)
..washed up like poison

A seventeen-year-old boy – she’s gotten mixed up with!

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Stanley > Stella 7:71

Stanley > Stella 7:72

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Toots! Get OUT of the BATHROOM! Must I speak more plainly?

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Stanley > Blanche 7:75

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[BLANCHE has a tight, artificial smile drawn on her face]

[She throws her head back and laughs]

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8: 76
8: 77

53
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[He hurls his pate to the floor]

‘Pig – Polack – disgusting – vulgar – greasy!’ ..A pair of queens?..I am the king

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8:77

Stanley > sisters 8:77

54
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(phones Mitch) [remains by the phone with a lost, frightened look]

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Blanche 8:78

55
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I hope his eyes are going to be like candles

[sitting down] What poetry!

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Blanche 8:79

Stanley > Blanche 8:79

56
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take hot baths for my nerves..helathy Polack..don’t know what anxiety feels like!

one hundred percent American, born and raised

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Blanche > Stanley 8:79

Stanley > Blanche 8:79

57
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Ticket! Back to Laurel! On the Greyhound! Tuesday!

[‘Varsouvivana’ music steals in softly]

tender and trusting..people like you abused her, and forced her to change

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Stanley > Blanche 8:80
8:80
Stella > Stanley 8:81

58
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[some interior voice had called her name]

[quietly] Take me to the hospital.

El pan de mais, el pan de mais,
El pan de mais sin sal
(corn bread x2 without salt)

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8:81
Stella > Stanley 8:82
Blanche 8:82

59
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so utterly uncavalier! But hello, beautiful!

[She offers him her lips. He ignores it]

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Blanche > Mitch 9:83

9:84

60
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I don’t want Stan’s liquor.

That – music again…

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Mitch > Blanche 9:84

Blanche > Mitch 9:84

61
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[A distant revolver is heard, BLANCHE seems relieved]
..now it’s stopped

Are you boxed out of your mind?

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Blanche > Mitch 9:85

Mitch > Blanche 9:85

62
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He says you’ve been lapping it up all summer like a wild cat!

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Mitch > Blanche 9:85

63
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[He tears the paper lantern off the light bulb. She utters a frightened gasp]

I don’t want realism..I want. magic! [MITCH laughs]

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9:86

Blanche > Mitch 9:86

64
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Flamingo? No! Tarantula

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Blanche > Mitch 9:87

65
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That’s where I bought my victims.

I had many intimacies with strangers.

‘This woman is morally unfit for her position!’

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6th Monologue 9:87

66
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Flores para los muertos

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Mexican woman > Blanche 9:88

67
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You’re not clean enough

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Mitch > Blanche 9:89

68
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[rhinestone tiara on her head..mumuring excitedly]

moonlight swim in the old rock-quarry?.. – if you hit a rock you don’t come up till tomorrow…

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Blanche 10:90

69
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[STANLEY appears…honky-tonk music is heard]

What’ve you got on those feathers for?
..Miami millionaire

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10:90

Stanley > Blanche 10:91

70
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I used to have a cousin who..was just a human bottle opener

red-letter night for us both. You having an oil-millionaire and me having a baby

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Stanley > Blanche 10:92

Stanley > Blanche 10:92

71
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both entitled to put on the dog

..foolish – casting my pearls before swine!

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Stanley > Blanche 10:93

Blanche > Stanley 10:93

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