Scene 3 Flashcards
‘They are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colours’
The bedroom is relatively dim
Cozy atmosphere, or there are hidden aspects that haven’t been revealed
Stanley (tosses some watermelon rinds to the floor)
Lack of respect to the environment that he is in. Verb: tosses
‘We’ll fix you sugar tit’ (Stanley to Mitch)
Implying that Mitch is a mother’s boy, a lot more softer than the men who surround him
‘You are fresh as a daisy’—‘one that’s been picked a few days ago’
Blanche: ‘Please don’t get up’
Chivalry, a remark of superiority. The mannerisms of the men from her aristocratic life
(Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh)
Blanche: ‘I think i will bathe’—‘ Again’ Stella
(She takes off the blouse and stands in her pink silk brassiere and white skirt through the portieres’
In the context of the play, the men would’ve been able to visualise her, sexual tension
Stanley: ‘He was looking through them drapes’
A clear reference to seeing the frame of Blanche, allure of sexual attraction that lingers in the atmosphere
(She has slipped on the dark red stain wrapper)
Sexual, lustful desire
‘Sick people have such deep, sincere attachments’
‘I can’t stand a naked light’
The truth will come out otherwise
‘She’s very run down’
This is not the truth, Blanche came on her on accord
Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe
Ill fainted romances
