Streetcar Quotes Scene 11 Flashcards
“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”
