America Flashcards
(16 cards)
Daintily
‘cocktail party…daintily dressed in a white suit’
Work
‘blue denim work clothes….bowling jacket’
Mechanics
‘Them darn mechanics’
Plump
‘As plump as a little partridge’
Rubbish
‘burned like rubbish’
Gaudy
‘Gaudy seed-bearer’
Columns
‘I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it!’
City
‘cosmopolitan city’
Invader
‘an inverted version of the Civil War romance’ ~ Thomas Porter
Literature
‘music and literature’
His
‘his love of good drink and food and games, his car, his radio’
Window
‘Tosses the [white radio] out of the window’
Destructive
‘the destructive power of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual’ ~ Williams
Realistic
‘This is a poetic tragedy, not a realistic, naturalistic one.’ ~ Elia Kazan
Era
‘Are we going into the era of Stanley? He may be practical and right….but what…does is leave us?’ Elia Kazan
Adapt
‘the characters are defined in terms of the way they relate to time, or in other words, by their ability or lack of ability to adapt to historical process’ ~ Ana Gazolla
