Streetcar Quotes Scene 11 Flashcards
Summary:
Blanche bathes for the final time in the play, believing that Shep will come to pick her up; Eunice and Stella discuss how “life has got to go on”, but the doctors arrive. Blanche is erratic, but the doctor comforts her until she willingly goes with him. Stella is racked with guilt, whilst Eunice hands her the baby, Stanley slips a hand in her blouse.
“the atmosphere of the kitchen is now the same raw, lurid one of the disastrous poker night”
“water can be heard running in the bathroom”
“Luck is believing you’re lucky” / “To hold front position in this rat-race you’ve got to believe you are lucky”
“I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley”
“Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you’ve got to keep on going.”
“she has a tragic radiance in her red satin robe following the sculptural lines of her body”
“all human experience shows on her face”
“the blue of the robe in the old Madonna pictures”
“this place is a trap!”
“I shall die of eating an unwashed grape one day out on the ocean” / “clean white sack”
“The Varsouviana faintly plays”
“Please don’t get up, I’m only passing through” / “the poker players stand awkwardly at the table - all except Mitch”.
“no sound but that of Stanley shuffling the cards”
“Stanley suddenly pushes back his chair and rises as if to block her way”
“threatening whispers”, “weird distortion” “cries and noises of the jungle”
“tears and seizes the paper lantern” / “she cries out as if the lantern were herself”
“Oh, God, oh, please God, don’t hurt her! What are they doing to her?”
“Stay with me and don’t look”
“What have I done to my sister?”
“The only thing you could do” / “there wasn’t no other place for her to go”
“This game is seven-card stud”
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”
“She should’ve been told!” / “God damn interfering with things you -“
“the inhuman cries and noises die out and her own hoarse crying is calmed”
“his voice is gentle and reassuring”
“she allows him to lead her as if she were blind”
“Blanche walks on without turning”
“Eunice descends to Stella and places the baby in her arms. It is wrapped in a pale blue blanket. Stella accepts the child, sobbingly.”
“he kneels beside her and his fingers find the opening of her blouse”
“she sobs with inhuman abandon” - Stella
