Streetcar Quotes Flashcards
‘stanley carries….’
‘stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red stained package from the butchers’
analyse this quote: ‘stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red stained package from the butchers’
props emphasise stanley’s primitive masculinity
first introduction establishes him as a provider
voilent connotations
male dominance in gender roles
STELLA: ‘it’s ___ that he has’
‘it’s a drive that he has’
analyse this quote: ‘it’s a drive that he has’
stella prises stanley’s vitality and virility
‘there is something uncertain about her manner that suggests a _____’
‘there is something uncertain about her manner that suggests a moth’
at the moment of blanche’s rape - ‘the roar of an _____’
‘the roar of an approaching locomotive’
BLANCHE: ‘put on soft colours, colours of -_____, and glow - make a little - _____, just in order to pay for one night’s shelter’
‘put on soft colours, colours of butterfly wings, and glow - make a little - temporary magic, just in order to pay for one night’s shelter’
BLANCHE: ‘i can’t stand a _____ , any more than I can a ______’
i can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action’
BLANCHE: ‘it’s della robia blue’
high culture, reference to virginity
BLANCHE: ‘ape-like, ____, ___ like one, ___like one, ____ like one’
‘ape-like, bestial, eats like one moves like one talks like one’
