A Streetcar Named Desire: Quotes Flashcards by Jack Routledge

Scene 1, Blanche: [her appearance is ___________ to the setting]

[her appearance is incongruous to the setting]

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Scene 1, Blanche: [her ________ ______ must avoid a _____ _____]

[her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light]

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Scene 1, Blanche: “I won’t be looked at in this _________ _____!”

“I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!”

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Scene 1, Blanche: “Daylight never exposed so _____ a ____!”

“Daylight never exposed so total a ruin!”

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Scene 1, Blanche: “I can’t be _____!”

“I can’t be alone!”

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Scene 1, Blanche: “Where were you? In bed with your - ______!”

“Where were you? In bed with your - Polack!”

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Scene 2, Blanche: “Feeling like a brand new _____ _____!”

“Feelings like a brand new human being!”

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Scene 2, Blanche: “A little bit on the _________ ____ I should think.”

“A little bit on the primitive side I should think.”

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Scene 2, Blanche: “___ _____ of your _____ insults them.”

“The touch of your hands insults them.”

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Scene 2, Blanche: “epic ____________”

“epic fornications”

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Scene 2, Blanche: “big, _______ _____”

“big, capable hands”

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Scene 2, Blanche: [the ____ _____ sounds louder]

[the blue piano sounds louder]

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Scene 2, Blanche: “The _____ are _______ the _____.”

“The blind are leading the blind.”

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Scene 3, Blanche: “Do I look ____ __?”

“Do I look done in?”

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Scene 3, Blanche: “Is he a ____?”

“Is he a wolf?”

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Scene 3, Blanche: I haven’t noticed a _____ of ______.”

“I haven’t noticed a stamp of genius.”

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Scene 3, Blanche: [____ ___ satin]

[dark red satin]

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Scene 3, Blanche: “I need ________ now.”

“I need kindness now.”

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Scene 4, Blanche: “The only way to live with such a man is to - __ __ ___ ____ ___”

“The only way to live with such a man is to - go to bed with him”

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Scene 4, Blanche: “Stanley Kowalski - ________ __ ___ _____ ___”

“Stanley Kowalski - survivor of the stone age”

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Scene 4, Blanche: “Don’t ____ ____ ____ ___ ______”

“Don’t hang back with the brutes”

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Scene 5, Blanche: “_____ is the ______”

“Virgo is the virgin”

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Scene 5, Blanche: “One _____ ____ to another _____ ____”

“One leaky roof to another leaky roof”

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Scene 5, Blanche: “My pretty _____ skirt”

“My pretty white skirt”

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Scene 5, Blanche: "I've got to be good and ____ __ _____ ___ ________"

"I've got to be good and keep my hands off children"

Scene 6, Blanche: "We are going to be very ________"

"We are going to be very Bohemian"

Scene 6, Blanche: "A girl _____ in the world"

"A girl alone in the world"

Scene 6, Blanche: "The __________ which had been turned on the _____ was ______ ___ again"

"The searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again"

Scene 8, Blanche: [she _______ her throat]

[she clutches her throat]

Scene 9, Blanche: [_____, ________ polka tune]

[rapid, feverish polka tune]

Scene 9, Blanche: "You've stopped that _____ ____"

"You've stopped that polka tune"

Scene 9, Blanche: "I tell what _____ __ __ _____. And if that is ______, then let me be ______ for it."

"I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful then let me be damned for it."

Scene 9, Blanche: "Don't ____ ___ _____ on!"

"Don't turn the light on!"

Scene 9, Blanche: "my _______"

"my victims"

Scene 9, Blanche: "_______ for some __________"

"hunting for some protection"

Scene 9, Blanche: [the _______ piano is ____ and ____]

[the distant piano is slow and blue]

Scene 10, Blanche: "it's only ___________"

"it's only rhinestones"

Scene 10, Blanche: "physical beauty is passing. A __________ __________"

"physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession"

Scene 10, Blanche: "casting my ______ before _____"

"casting my pearls before swine"

Scene 10, Blanche: "caught in a ____"

"caught in a trap"

Scene 10, Blanche: [the _______ ______ ______ rise up]

[the inhuman jungle voices rise up]

Scene 11, Blanche: "please ____ ___ ________ before I come out"

"please close the curtains before I come out"

Scene 11, Blanche: [she has a ______ ________]

[she has a tragic radiance]

Scene 11, Blanche: [a look of _________ __________]

[a look of sorrowful perplexity]

Scene 11, Blanche: "this place is a ____!"

"this place is a trap!"

Scene 11, Blanche: "I'm going to ___ __ ___ ___."

"I'm going to die on the sea."

Scene 11, Blanche: [_____ reflections]

[lurid reflections]

Scene 11, Blanche: "I have always ________ on the ________ __ _________"

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"

Scene 1, Stanley: "____!"

"Meat!"

Scene 1, Stanley: "__ __________ is my motto."

"be comfortable is my motto."

Scene 2, Stanley: "let's see the ______."

"let's see the papers."

Scene 2, Stanley: "What belongs to the ____ also belongs to the _______ and ____ _____."

"What belongs to the wife also belongs to the husband and vice versa."

Scene 2, Stanley: "I said, __ ____?"

"I said, so what?"

Scene 2, Stanley: "Lay her _____ on the _____"

"Lay her cards on the table"

Scene 2, Stanley: [he ______ the atomizer]

[he seizes the atomizer]

Scene 3, Stanley: [the sound of a ____]

[the sound of a blow]

Scene 3, Stanley: "my ____ ______ left me!"

"my baby doll's left me!"

Scene 3, Stanley: [low, ______ moans]

[low, animal moans]

Scene 4, Stanley: [he _____ through the ________ at Blanche]

[he grins through the curtains at Blanche]

Scene 7, Stanley: "___ _______ in the tub"

"Her Majesty in the tub"

Scene 7, Stanley: "some ____ she is!"

"some lily she is!"

Scene 7, Stanley: "she has been ______ __ like ______."

"she has been washed up like poison."

Scene 7, Stanley: "a _________ ____ ___ ___ - she'd gotten _____ __ with!"

"a seventeen year old boy - she'd gotten mixed up with!"

Scene 7, Stanley: "a ____ _________ passed against her"

"a town ordinance passed against her"

Scene 7, Stanley: "It's not __ ____ I'm worried about!"

"It's not my soul I'm worried about!"

Scene 8, Stanley: [he _____ a plate at the door]

[he hurls a plate at the door]

Scene 8, Stanley: "I am ___ ____ around here"

"I am the King around here"

Scene 8, Stanley: "I pulled you ____ ___ those _______ and how you loved it."

"I pulled you down off those columns and how you loved it."

Scene 10, Stanley: "I'll tear this off and wave it ____ _ ____"

"I'll tear this off and wave it like a flag"

Scene 10, Stanley: "There isn't a goddamn thing but ___________"

"There isn't a goddamn thing but imagination"

Scene 10, Stanley: "What _____ do you think you are?"

"What Queen do you think you are?"

Scene 10, Stanley: "Maybe you wouldn't be so bad to ________ ____"

"Maybe you wouldn't be so bad to interfere with"

Scene 10, Stanley: "Let's have some __________"

"Let's have some rough-house"

Scene 10, Stanley: "Tiger-_____"

"Tiger-tiger"

Scene 10, Stanley: "We've ___ ____ ____ with each other from the beginning"

"We've had this date with each other from the beginning"

Scene 11, Stanley: [seizes the _____ _______]

[seizes the paper lantern]

Scene 11, Stanley: "Hold this ____-______ _______"

"Hold this bone-headed crybaby"

Scene 11, Stanley: [no sound but that of Stanley ________ _________ the _____]

[no sound but that of Stanley steadily shuffling the cards]

Scene 11, Stanley: [his fingers find the _______ __ ___ ______]

[his fingers find the opening of her blouse]

Scene 1, Stella: "I cry on his lap ____ _ ____"

"I cry on his lap like a baby"

Scene 2, Stella: "you'd better give me ____ _____"

"you'd better give me some money"

Scene 2, Stella: "tell her she's _______ _________"

"tell her she's looking wonderful"

Scene 3, Stella: "This is __ _____ and I'll ____ as much as I want to"

"This is my house and I'll talk as much as I want to"

Scene 3, Stella: "drunk - ______ _____ you!"

"drunk - animal thing you!"

Scene 3, Stella: [her eyes go _____ with __________]

[her eyes go blind with tenderness]

Scene 4, Stella: [__________ tranquility]

[narcotized tranquility]

Scene 4, Stella: "I was - sort of - ________ by it"

"I was - sort of - thrilled by it"

Scene 4, Stella: "you know how long ____ _ _______ is going to keep"

"you know how long such a promise is going to keep"

Scene 4, Stella: "he likes to ___ _____ himself"

"he likes to pay bills himself"

Scene 5, Stella: "that's ____ ____ __________"

"that's much more practical"

Scene 7, Stella: [she crosses in a _____ way]

[she crosses in a dazed way]

Scene 7, Stella: "I think your supply man was ____ and ______ to tell them"

"I think your supply man was mean and rotten to tell them"

Scene 7, Stella: [she ______ withdraws from him]

[she gently withdraws from him]

Scene 7, Stella: "he was a __________"

"he was a degenerate"

Scene 7, Stella: "_________ the ground he walked on"

"worshipped the ground he walked on"

Scene 8, Stella: "someone as _____ as she is"

"someone as alone as she is"

Scene 11, Stella: "I couldn't believe her story and __ __ ______ with him"

"I couldn't believe her story and go on living with him"

Scene 11, Stella: "don't let them ____ her"

"don't let them hurt her"

Scene 11, Stella: [Stella accepts the child ________]

[Stella accepts the child sobbingly]

Scene 3, Mitch: "you're certainly not an ___ ____"

"you're certainly not an old maid"

Scene 3, Mitch: [like a _______ ____]

[like a dancing bear]

Scene 6, Mitch: "now my _____ __ ____"

"now my belly is hard"

Scene 6, Mitch: [he __________ embraces her]

[he fumblingly embraces her]

Scene 9, Mitch: "I don't think I ever seen you __ ___ _____"

"I don't think I ever seen you in the light"

Scene 9, Mitch: "you're not _____ enough"

"you're not clean enough"

Scene 11, Mitch: [collapses at the table, _______]

[collapses at the table, sobbing]

Scene 11, Mitch: "I'll ____ you! [He ______ and strikes at Stanley]"

"I'll kill you! [He lunges and strikes at Stanley]"

Scene 11, Eunice: "Don't ever _______ it"

"Don't ever believe it"

Scene 11, Steve: "This game is a _____ ____ ____"

"This game is a seven card stud"

A Streetcar Named Desire: Quotes Flashcards

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