Streetcar Quotes Scene 4 Flashcards
Summary:
Blanche begins to write a letter to ask Shep Huntleigh - an old suitor - to come save her and Stella. Stella doesn’t want to leave, and Blanche then talks in reproach of Stanley - but he overhears, then is embraced by Stella when he comes back in.
“book of coloured comics”
“What other can I be?” - Stella
“Stanley’s gaudy pyjamas lie across the threshold of the bedroom”
“her appearance entirely contrasts with Stella’s”
“when men are drinking and playing poker, anything can happen”
“Stanley’s always smashed things” / “he smashed all the light-bulbs with the heel of my slipper!”
“as good as a lamb”
“your fix is worse than mine is!”
“You take it for granted that I’m in something that I want to get out of” / “I’m not in anything I want to get out of”
“go to bed with him! And that’s your job - not mine!”
“Stanley doesn’t give me a regular allowance”
“What you are talking about is brutal desire - just - Desire! - the name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another…”
“Where I’m not wanted and where I’m ashamed to be…”
“outside a train approaches” / “overhears their following conversation”
“There’s something downright - bestial - about him!” / “survivor of the stone age” / “bearing the raw meat home” / “or maybe grunt and kiss you!” / “party of apes!”
“Don’t - don’t hang back with the brutes!” / “In some kinds of people some tenderer feelings have had some little beginning”
“licking his lips”, plastic theatre of the train end of scene
“he grins through the curtains at Blanche”
“If only my mind would function!”
