Streetcar named Desire Quotations Flashcards
Desire (9)
-‘They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian fields’
-‘They come together with low animal moans’
-‘Since earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women’
-‘You make my mouth water’
-‘It would be nice to keep you but Ive got to be good and keep my hands off children’
-‘Red Satin Robe’
-‘There are things that happen between a man and a women in the dark that sort of make everything else seem unimportant’
-‘He starts to remove his shirt’
-‘We’ve had this date with each other since the beginning’
Sex and feminity
-‘Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh’
- Blanche gives a ‘piercing cry’ when the coke bottle threatens to ‘stain’ her ‘pretty white skirt’ (Coke bottle=phalic symbol for women being stained by sex)
-‘Your not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother’
Masculinity (8)
-‘I am the king around here, so don’t forget it!’
- ‘My sister has married a man’
-‘Coloured shirt, solid blues, a purple’
-‘There is the sound of a blow’
- ‘He was as good as a lamb’
- ‘Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red stained package from the butchers’
-‘ With the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens’
- Under the Napoleonic code a man has to take an interest in his wife’s affairs’
Illusion versus reality
-‘I don’t want realism, I want magic!’
-‘A women’s charm is fifty percent illusion’
-‘I can’t stand a naked light bulb’
-‘It’s only a paper moon just as phony as can be!’
-‘I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley’
-‘I have always depended on the kindness of strangers’
Class (8)
-‘Just try not to well- compare him with the men we went out with at home’
-‘I am not a Polack’
-‘Roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes’
-‘Yes, something ape-like about him!’
-‘daintly dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice’
-‘and diamonds! A crown for an empress!’
-‘Well- if you’ll forgive me- he’s common!’
-‘I pulled you down off those columns and how you loved it!’
