Streetcar Quotes Scene 1 Flashcards
Summary:
Blanche arrives in Laurel - tells her she has lost Belle Reve, and blames Stella for leaving. Stanley arrives back home, makes small talk with Blanche and asks whether she’s ever been married - Blanche faints.
“gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay”
“a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town”.
“Catch!” / “Meat!”, “heaves” - Stanley
“blue denim work clothes”, “red-stained package from a butcher’s”
“her appearance is incongruous to this setting”
“that suggests a moth”, “her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light”
“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!”
“the blind look goes out of her eyes”, “very stiffly with her shoulders slightly hunched”
“I’ve got to keep hold of myself!”
“not till I’ve bathed!”, “merciless glare”
“as she tries to laugh” “the bottle nearly slips from her grasp”
“Since earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women.”
“No coke, honey”
“I was so exhausted by all I’d been through my - nerves broke”. “I was on the verge of - lunacy”
“Daylight never exposed so total a ruin!”
“Well, I never had your beautiful self control”
“my looks are slipping” / “- will it be decent?”
“I’m not very well”
“A different species”
“The best I could do was make my own living, Blanche”
“Fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!”
“since earliest manhood” / “his love of good drink and food and games, his car, his radio, everything that is his, that bears his emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer”
“Not in my territory”
“You were married once, weren’t you?”
