Streetcar Quotes Scene 9 Flashcards
Summary:
Mitch confronts Blanche about her past and The Flamingo - whilst the Polka tune plays in her head - she reveals what her past has been like, and Mitch tries to rape her until she screams “Fire!”
“Blanche is seated in a tense hunched position” / “scarlet satin robe” / “the music is in her mind” “she seems to whisper the words of the song”
“blue denim shirt and pants” = contrasts scene 1
“frantically hiding the bottle in a closet” / “she is so excited that her breath is audible as she dashes about”
“You’ve stopped that polka tune that I had caught in my head”
“plumps himself down on the bed in the bedroom and lights a cigarette”
“he stalks into the bedroom” / “pushes” / “slowly and bitterly”
“He says you been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat!”
“I like it dark. The dark is comforting to me” / “I’ve never had a real good look at you, Blanche”.
“I don’t want realism” / “I’ll tell you what I want. Magic!”
“I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be the truth! And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
“he tears the paper lantern off the light bulb” / “she cries out and covers her face”
“Flamingo? No! Tarantula was the name of it! I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms”
“Yes, I had many intimacies with strangers, “intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with…”
“hunting for some protection”
“I didn’t lie in my heart”
“she is a blind Mexican woman” “flowers that lower-class Mexicans display at funerals”
“Crumble and fade and - regrets” / “legacies! / “blood-stained pillow-slips”
“Death” / “the opposite is desire” / “death was as close as you are”
“he places his hands on her waist and tries to turn her about” / “fumbling to embrace her”
“You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother.”
