Blanche Flashcards
Blanche and bright light
“Turn that over-light off! Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare.”
Blanche role playing her desired life
“We are going to be very Bohemian. We are going to pretend that we are sitting in a little artists’ café on the Left Bank in Paris!”
Blanche does not want to accept truth
“Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”
Blanche singing- fantasy vs reality
“Say it’s only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea—But it wouldn’t be make believe If you believed in me!”
Blanche insults Stella’s new lifestyle
“I thought you would never come back to this horrible place! What am I saying? I didn’t mean to say that. I meant to be nice about it and say—Oh, what a convenient location and such”
Blanche and alcohol
“I know you must have some liquor on the place! Where could it be, I wonder?”
Blanche flirting with Stanley
“Oh, in my youth I excited some admiration. But look at me now!”
Blanches lies about her past
“I’m afraid he does have me mixed up with this “other party.” The Hotel Flamingo is not the sort of establishment I would dare to be seen in.”
Stanley tells Stella about Blanche’s past
“A seventeen-year-old boy—she’d gotten mixed up with!”
Blanche on Stanley’s social class
‘Well - if you’ll forgive me - he’s common!’
Blanche on Stanley’s sexuality
“But the only way to live with such a man is to-go to bed with him!”
Blanche on Allan Grey
“the boy I had married and an older man who had been his friend for years”
