The Past Flashcards
Blanche’s struggle with Belle Reeve
“You left! I stayed and struggled! I stayed at Belle Reeve and tried to hold it together!
Blanches toil with Belle Reeve
“I stayed and fought , bled for it , almost died for it!”
Blanche and past admiration
“Oh, in my youth i excited some admiration”
Allan’s letters and Stanley’s intervention
“These are love letters , yellowing with antiquity, all from one boy.”
Allan’s poems and Blanches own past vulnerability
“Poems a dead boy wrote. I hurt him the way you would like to me , but you can’t! I’m not young and vulnerable any more. But my young husband was and i - “
Mitch’s past love , parallels to Blanche
“The girl’s dead now.”
“She knew she was dying when she gave me this. A very strange girl , very sweet - very!”
Blanche and her leave of absence and her lunacy
“I was on the verge of - lunacy almost! So Mr Graves - Mr Graves is the high school superintendent - he suggested i take a leave of absence. I couldn’t put all of those details into the wire…”
Discovery of love
“He was a boy , just a boy , when i was a very young girl. When i was sixteen , i made the discovery - love. All at once and much too completely.”
Blanches reputation in Laurel , as described by Stanley
“She is as famous in Laurel as if she was the president of the United States, only she is not respected by any party!
Blanches reason for staying
“For the last year or two she has been washed up like poison. That’s why she’s here this summer, visting royalty, putting on all this act”
Blanches rejection of claims
“The Hotel Flamingo is not the sort of establishment i would dare to be seen in”
Stella’s insight to Blanche’s childhood.
“You didn’t know Blanche as a girl. Nobody , nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her , and forced her to change.”
