Streetcar Quotes Scene 2 Flashcards
Summary:
Blanche bathes, Stanley questions Stella about how exactly Belle Reve was lost, rummaging through her trunk. Stella leaves to get a soda on Blanche’s request, and she shows Stanley the bill of sale.
Stanley accidentally (purposefully?) reveals that Stella is pregnant, which excites Blanche.
“you’d better give me some money”
“Don’t mention the baby”
“Tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness!”
repetition of “swindled”, “napoleonic code”
repetition of “acquaintance”, “merchandise”, “appraise” - limited vocabulary.
“Since when do you give me orders?” - Stanley
“Here I am, all freshly bathed and scented, and feeling like a brand-new human being!”
“red satin robe”
“Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be - attractive?”
“a little bit on the primitive side”
“and I have an idea she doesn’t understand you as well as I do…”
“slams”, “seizes”
“Everything I own is in that trunk”
“Poems a dead boy wrote. I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt me, but you can’t! I’m not young and vulnerable any more”.
“How pretty the sky is! I ought to go there on a rocket that never comes down”.
“Brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications!”
