key streetcar quotes Flashcards
(138 cards)
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QUOTE ABOUT TAPPING ON SHUTTERS
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‘you’ll hear them tapping on the shutters’
-sexual culture in New Orleans
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In this part of New Orleans you are practically aL ways lust around the comer, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played with the infatuated fluency of brown fingers. This “Blue Piano” expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here.
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New Orleans is a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town. . Above the music
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tanley carries his bowling lacket and a red Stained package from a butcher’s.
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QUOTE ON BLANCHE’S ARRIVAL OUTFIT AND AVOIDING STRONG LIGHT
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her appearance is Incongruous to this setting. She is daintily dressed in a white suit With a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district. She is about five years older than Stella. Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light.
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Meat!
[He heaves the package at her. She cries out in protest but manages to catch it; then she laughes breathlessly.
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Meat! Bowling! Come on.
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hey told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at-Elysian Fieldsl
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BLANCHE: This can this b e - h e r home?
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. Suddenly she notices something in a half-opened closet. She springs up and crosses to it, and removes a whiskey bottle. She pours a half tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down. She care- fully replaces the bottle and washes out the tumbler at the sink.
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Ive got to keep hold of myself!
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But don’t you look at me,
Stella,.no, no, no, not till later, not till I’ve bathed and restedI And turn that over-light off! Tum that offl I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare! [
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I thought you would never come back to this horrible placel What am I saying? I didn’t mean to say that. I meant to be nice about it and say -Qh, what a convenient location and such-Ha-a-hal
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open your pretty mouth and talk while I look around for some Iiquorl I know you must have some liquor on the place! Where could it be, I wonder? Oh, I spy, I spy!
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[She rushes to the closet and removes the bottle; she is shak- ing allover and panting for breath as she tries to laugh. The bottle nearly slips from her grasp.]
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You sit down, now, and explain this place to me! What are you doing in a place like this?
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No, now seriously, putting joking aside. Why didn’t you tell me, why didn’t you write me, honey, why didn’t you let me know?
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Tell you what blanche?
Why, that you had to live In these conditionsI
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STELLA:
You never did give me a chance to say much, Blanche. So
I just got in the habit of being quiet around you
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You haven’t said a word about my appearance
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You just have to watch
around the hips a little
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BLANCHE: You hear me? I said stand upl [Stella complies reluctantly] You messy child, you, you’ve spilt something on the pretty white lace collarI
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I want you to look at my figurel [She turns around] You know I haven’t put on one ounce in ten years, Stella? I weigh what I weighed the summer you left Belle Reve.
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ELLA [a little wearily]:
It's just incredible, Blanche, how well you're looking.
BLANCHE:
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BLANCHE:
Is he so-different?
STELLA: Yes. A different species.
BLANCHE:
In what way; what's he like?
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STELLA
But of course there were things to adjust myself to later
on.
BLANCHE:
Such as his civilian background!
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[half toherself]: I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night * **
And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby ***
[She smiles to' herself.]
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you left! I stayed and struggled! You came to New Orleans and looked out for yourself.
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I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!
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BLANCHE:
You're a fine one to sit there accusing me of it!
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Where were you! In bed with your-Polack!
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. Animal joy in his being is implicit in al/ his movements and attitudes. Since earliest manhood the center of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indul- gence, dependentlY, but with the power arui pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens.
He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them.] -
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No, I-rarely touch it.
Some people rarely touch it but it touches them often
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It's hard to stay looking fresh. I haven't of you a good deal. You were married once, weren't you? washed or even powdered my face and-here you arel
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You were married once, weren't you? washed or even powdered my face and-here you arel
IThe music oj the polka rises up, taint in the distance.]
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Blanche's dress, a flowered print, Is IoId out on Stella's bed.
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when she comes In be sure to say something nice about
he.r appearance.
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stella asks stanley to say nice things abt blanche appearance
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When she comes In be sure to say something nice about
he.r appearance.
And admire her dress and tell her she's looking wonderful.
That's important with Blanche. Her little weakness
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STANLEY ASKS TO ENLIGHTEN STELLA
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STANLEY:
Have you ever heard of the Napoleonic code?
STELLA:
No, ·Stanley, I haven't heard of the Napoleonic code and
if I have, 1 don't see what i t -
STANLEY:
Let me enlighten you on a point or two, baby
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STANLEY EXPLAINS NAPOLEONIC CODE TO STELLA
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In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic ,code according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa. For instance if.l had a piece of property, or you had a piece of property-
(desire to possess, limitations on women)
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stanley doesnt like to be swindled
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It looks to me like you have been swindled, baby, and when you're swindled under the Napoleonic code I'm swindled too. And 1 don't like to be swindled.
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STAGE DIRECTION ON STANLEY STALKING INTO BEDROOM TO FIND BLANCHE'S CHEST
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[He stalks into bedroom, and she follows him.]
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agressive handling of blanche's trunk stage directions
He hurls the furs to the daybed. Then he jerks open small
drawer in the trunk iInd pulls up a fist-full of costume jewelry.]
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BLANCHE TELLS STANLEY SHE IS FRESHLY BATHED
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‘hello stanley! here I am all freshly bathed and scented’
sexual promiscuity of blanche
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BLANCHE CHANGES FROM SATIN ROBE TO FLOER DRESS
[Blanche throws off her robe and slips into a flowered print dress.]
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STANLEY CROSSES THROUGH DRAPES SMOULDERING
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[He crosses through drapes with a smoldering look.]
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BLANCHE TEASES STANLEY ON HIS BIG CLUMSY FINGERS
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you men with your big clumsy fingers. May I have a drag
on your cig?
(cig, symbol of sexuality)
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BLANCHE TRIES TO GET A COMPLIMENT FROM STANLEY
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Would you think it
possible that i was once considered to be-attractive?
BLANCHE : i was fishing for a compliment, stanley
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blanche says to stanley... to intrest you a woman would have to.....
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a little bit on the primitive side I should think. To interest you a woman
would have to-[She pauses with an 'indefinite gesture.]
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stanley says if blanche wasnt his wife's sister he would get ideas about her
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If I didn't know that you was my wife's sister I'd get ideas about you
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blanche says a womans charm is 50 percent illusion
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I know I fib a good deal. After all a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion, but when a ~g is impor- tant I tell the truth, and this is the truth: I haven't cheated my sister or you or anyone else as long as I have lived.
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BIG CAPABLE HANDS
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Take them, peruse them-commit them to memory, even! I think it's wonderfully fitting that Belle Reve sbould finally be this bunch of old papers in your big, capable handsl
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blue paino plays when blanche finds out stella is having baby
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Blanche opens her eyes. The "blue piand' sounds louder.]
BLANCHE:
Stella? Stella going to have a baby? [dreamily] I didn't know she was going to have a baby!
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BLANCHE TELLS STELLA SHE WAS FLIRTING WITH STANLEY
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I called him a little boy and laughed and flirted. Yes, I was flirting with your husband!
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stage direction on poker men wearing coloured shirts
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The poker players--Stanley, Steve, Mitch and Pablbo-wear colored shirts, solid blues, a purple, a red-and-white check, a light green, and they are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colors. There are vivid slices of watermelon on the table, whiskey
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BEFORE BLANCHE MEETS POKER MEN SHE IS CONCERNED OF APPEARANCE
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BLANCHE: I feel so hot and frazzled. Wait till I powder b·efore you open the door. Do I look done in?
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stanley wacks stella's thigh
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[A chair scrapes. Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh.]
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stanley tells the women to go and sit with Eunice
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Could I kibitz?
STANLEY:
You could not. Why don't you women go up and sit with Eunice?
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BLANCHE SAYS MITCH SEEMS SUPERIOR TO OTHERS
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That one seems-superior to the others.
BLANCHE: I thought he had a sort of sensitive look.
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blanche purposefully moves back into streak of light to have sexual appeal to poker men
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[Blanche moves back into the streak of light. She raises her arms and stretches, as she moves indolently back to the chair.
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blanche tells mitch she isnt accustomed to having more than one drink
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I'm not accustomed to having more than one
drink. Two is the limit-and threel
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blanche says she cannot stand a naked lightbulb
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BLANCHE: I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I Can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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STAGE DIRECTION ON STANLEY STALKING INTO BEDROOM TO TURN OFF MUSIC
[Stanley stalks fiercely through the portieres into the bed- room.)
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STELLA CALLS STANLEY A DRUNK ANIMAL THINMG
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drunk drunk animal think you!
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stage direction on something being overturned when stanley is beating Stella
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Something is overturned With a crash.
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MEN SPEAK QUIETLTY AND LOVINGLY TO STANLEY
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[They speak quietly and lovingly to him and he leans his
face on one of their shoulders.]
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eunice implies this isnt the first time stella has been beat by stanley
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You stinker! You whelp of a Polack, youl I hope they do haul you in and turn the fire hose on you, same as the last time!
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stanley and stella reunite with low animal moans
Then they come together with low, animal moans. He falls to his knees on the steps and presses his face to her belly, curving a little
with maternity.
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stanleys gaudy pyjamas lie across threshhold of bedroom
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Stanleys gaudy pyjamas lie across the threshold 0/ the bathroom.
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stella says what happened wasnt serious
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Yes, you are, Blanche. I know how it must.have seemed to you and I'm awful sorry it had to happen, \lut it wasn't anything as serious as you seem to take it. In the·first place, when men are drinking and playing poker anything can happen.
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STELLA SAYS SHE IS THRILLED BY STANLEY'S VIOLENCE
I Was sort of-thrilled by it. [She walts for a moment] Eunice and you had breakfast?
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stella says she isnt in somethimg she wants to get out of
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' i said I am not in anything that I have a desire to get out of '
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stella says who is going to clear up after stanley if not her
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Then who's going to do it. Are you?
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stella says stanley doesn't give her a regular allowance and he gave her 10 quid that morning
STELLA [crossing to bureau]:
Stanley doesn't give me a regular allowance, he likes to pay
bills 'himself, but-this morning he gave me ten dollars to
smooth things over. You take five of it, Blanche, and I'll
keep the rest.
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blanche says the only way to deal with a man like stanley is to geo to bed with him
BLANCHE: On the contrary, 1 saw him at his best! What such a man has to offer is animal force and he gave a wonderful . exhibition of that! But the only way to live with such a man is _ g o to bed with him! And that's your job-not mine!
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STELLA SAYS THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN BETWEEN A MAN AND WOMAN IN THE DARK THAT MAKE EVERYTHING ELSE UNIMPORTANT
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STELLA:
But there are things that happen between a man and a
woman in the dark-that sort of make everything else seem -unimportant. [Pause.]
What you are talking about is brutal desir~just-Desire!
h e name of that rattle-trap street-car that bangs through
the Quarter, up one old nllJTOW street and down an-
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blanche says the streetcar named desire brought here here (aka desire lead to her tragic fate- elysian fields)
SHE SAYS SHES ASHAMED TO BE THERE
BLANCHE:
It brought me here.-Where I'm not wanted and where I'm
ashamed to be * * *
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STANLEY ARRIVES WHEN TRAIN SOUNDS AND THEN HE LISTENS TO BLANCHE AND STELLA ( LOCOMATIVE SOUNDS= STANLEY)
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Under cover of the train's noise Stanley enters from out- side.
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blanche tells stella how animalistic he is
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There's something downright-bestial-about himl Y ou're hating me saying this, aren't you?
He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even some- thin~ub-human-something not quite to the stage of humanity yeti
Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is--Stanley Kowalski~urvivor of the stone age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the
jungle! And you-you here-waiting for him!
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there is overturned furniture when steve and eunice fight (mirrors stanley- broader image of male violence)
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EUNICE [shrieking]: You hit mel I'm gonna call the policel
[A clatter of aluminum striking a wall Is heard, followed by a man's angry roar, shouts and overturned /urniture. There is a crash; the,. a relative hush.]
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BLANCHE TELLS STANLEY SHE THINKS HE ISN BORN UNDER AIRES
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BLANCHE:
Astrological sign. I bet you were born under Aries. Aries
people are forceful and dynamic. They dote on noisel
They love to bang things aroundI
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BLANCHE SAYS SHES A VIRGO
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VIRGO IS THE VIRGIN
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STANLEY ASKS BNLANCHE IF HE KNOWS A MAN NAMED SHW, HER FACE expresses faint shock
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Hahl [He advances Q little as he knots his tie] Say, do you bappen to know somebody named Shaw?
[Her face expresses a ftUM shock.
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BLANCHE SAYS THE FLAMINGO ISNT THE SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT SHE WOULD DARE BE SEEN IN
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the Hotel Flamingo is not the sort o~ establishment
I would dare to be seen in
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stage directions of blanche trembling when stanley brings up shaw
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her eyes as if faint. Her hand trembles as she Ufts the hand- kerchief again to her forehead.
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BLANCHE SUDDENLY CLUTCHES STELLA'S HAND AFTER THE WHOLE SHAW THING
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Blanche suddenly clutches Stella's tree hand with a moaning sound and presses the hand to her lips. Stella is embarrassed by her show of emotion. Blanche speaks In a choked voice.]
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blanche gives peircing cry when coke poured on dress
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[Blanche laughs shrilly and grabs the glass, but her hand shakes so it almost slips 'rom her grasp. Stella pours the coke into the glass. It foams over and spills. Blanche gives a piercing cry.]
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BLANCHE SAYS SHE WANTS TO DECIEVE MICTH TO STELLA
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he thinks I'm sort of-prim and proper, you know! [She laughs out sharply] I want to deceive him enough tomake him-want me ***
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blanche says if you are over thirty you are put out
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He hasn't gotten a thing but a goodnight kiss, that's an I have given him, Stella. I want his respect. And men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand men lose interest quickly. Especially when the girl is over-thirty. They think a girl over thirty ought to-the vulgar term ls-''put out."
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BLANCHE ASKS YOUNG MAN FOR A LIGHT
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hey! [He IIn'1LJ back shyly. She puts a cigarette In a long
holder] Could you give me a light? [She crosses toward him. They meet at the door between the two rooms.]
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BLANCHE TELLS YOU MAN SHE WANTS TO KISS HOIM, THEN AFTER KISSING WITHOUT CONSENT SHE SAYS SHE MUST KEEP HER HANDS OFF CHILDREN
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Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the Arabian Nights?
[The Young Man laughs uncomfortably and stands like a hashful kid. Blanche speaks softly to him.]
Well, you do, honey lambl Come here. l want to kiss you, just once, ~ftly and sweetly on your mouthI
Now run along, now, quickly! It would be nice to keep you, but I've got to be good-and keep my hands off children.
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blanche tells mitch she didn't object to the kiss she was just unfamiliar with it
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Honey, it wasn't the kiss I objected to. I liked the kiss very much. It was the other little--familiarity"-that 1 - felt obliged to--discourage. * * * I didn't resent it! Not a bit in the world! In fact, I was somewhat llattered that you--desired me! But, honey, you know as well as I do that a single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep
a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!
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BLANCHE SAYS TO MITCH LETS LEAVE THE LIGHTS OFF SHALL WE
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BLANCHE: I guess you are used to girls that like to be lost. The kind that get lost inImediately, on the first date!
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blanche tells mitch they are going to be very bohemian
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We are going to be very Bohemian. We are going to pretend that we are sitting in a little artists' cafe on the Left Bank in Parisi [Shp lights a candle stub and puts It In a bottle.] Ie mi.r la Dame aux CamellUzsI Your 2tetl- Armandl Understand French?
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blanche asks mitch if he wants to sleep with her in French
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Youlez-vous coucher avec mot ce solr? Yous ne com- prenez pas? Ah, que/Ie dommagel
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blanche flatters mitch, says he has a large bone structure
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You are not the delicate type. You have a massive bone structure and a very imposing physique.
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blanche knowingly flatters mitch
Gracious. [Her hand touches her chest.]
BLANCHE:
Oh, my goodness, me! It's awe-inspiring.
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BLANCHE SAYS SHE HAS OLD FASHIONED IDEALS AND SHE ROLLS HER EYES
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guess it Is just that I have-,old-fashioned ideals! [She rolls her eye., knowing he cannot see her face. Mitch goe. to the front door. There ir a considerable silence between them: Blanche sigh! and Mitch cough! selfcon- sciously.]
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BLANCHE DESCRIBES ALLAN AS A BOY WHEN EXPLAINING STORY OF HIS DEATH TO MITCH
SCENE 6 (LATE)
he was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very·young girl. When I was sixteen, 1. made the discovery-love. AIl at once and much, much too completely. It was like you sud- denly turned a blinding light on
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BLANCHE TELLS MITCH WHEN SHE FIRST SAW STANLEY SHE THOUGHT HE WOULD BE HER EXECUTIONER
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BLANCHE: He hates me. Or why would he insult me? The first time I laid eyes on him I thought to myself, that man is my executionerI That man will destroy me, unless-
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[She takes off the blouse and stands in her pink silk brassiere and white skirt in the light through the portieres.)
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blanche uses light to display her sexuality, shows how she chooses to seduce men
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Have you got any cigs?
[She has slipped on the dark red satin wrapper.]
-cigarrettes are a sexual symbol
-red and satin sexual, alluring connotations of red, tries to appeal
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'I've got to be good and keep my hands of children”
Young man scene
Uses sexuality as a desperate attempt to cling onto youth as she recognises the transience of beauty and age
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'Stella pours the coke into the glass. It foams over and spills. Blanche gives a piercing cry.'
Creates a crude image of ejaculation. The staining of her white skirt emphasises how sex has corrupted her, her cry is likely a mixture of pleasure and pain. BOTTLE IS PHALLIC.
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"intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with"
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What such a man has to offer is animal force and he gave a wonderful exhibition of that! But the only way to live with such a man is to—go to bed with him! And that’s your job—not mine!
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hasn’t gotten a thing but a goodnight kiss, that’s all I have given him, Stella. I want his respect. And men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand men lose interest quickly. Especially when the girl is over—thirty. They think a girl over thirty ought to—the vulgar term is—“put out.”
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‘things that happen between a man and woman in the dark makes everything else seem unimportant’
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'How you love it! Having them colour lights going!'
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Them night we had together? God, honey, it’s gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way that we used to and get the colored lights going with nobody’s sister behind the curtain to hear us!
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‘this-can this be her home?’
scene 1
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'Oh, I guess he’s just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now that we’ve lost Belle Reve’
scene 2
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‘it brought me here where im not wanted and ashamed to be’
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‘well if you’ll forgive me he’s common!”
scene 4
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"I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don't ever call me a Polack.
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A red stained package from a butcher’s’
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Primal basic way of talking ‘catch!”, ‘meat’, ‘bowling!’
scene 1
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'Tiger-tiger'
Stanley addresses Blanche in animalistic terms, drawing her under his domination and into his violent physical world. He casts their encounter as fate, the necessary end to the primal struggle of their opposing forces.
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'Stalks fiercely, snatches off the radio, tosses the instrument out the window',
scene 3
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* 'pulls open' 'jerks out' 'hurls' 'kicks' 'seizes' 'slams it down' 'shoving' roughly'
scene 2
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'an animal thing', primal roar of 'STELL-LAHHHHHH!', 'they come together with low, animal moans'
scene 3
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'let me enlighten you on a point or two baby’
scene 2
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"them kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's too much around here! What do you think you two are? A pair of queens? Remember what Huey Long said - "Every Man is a King!" And I am the King around here, so don't forget it!"
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"You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother."
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*Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh
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stanley says he found proof from reliable resources
SCENE 7, end
STANLEY:
Things I already suspected. But now I got proof from the most reliable sources-which I have checked on!
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sound of locomative blares when blanche tells mitch about Allan (SHOWS STANLEY'S EFFORTS TO EXPOSE HER ARE WORKING)
scene 6
[A locomotive 'is heard approaching outside. She clapJ her hands to her ean and crouches over. er. The headlight of the locomotive glares into the room ar it thunders past.
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polka plays when blanche explains allans death
scene 6
Polka music sounds, in a minor key faint with distance.]
We danced the Varsouviana! Suddenly in the middle of the dance the boy I had married broke away from me and ran out of the casino. A few moments later-a shot!
[The polka stop abruptly.]
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BLANCHE SAYS THERE HAS BEEN NO LIGHT ON HER SINCE ALLANS DEATH
scene 6, end
And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one ma- ment since has there been llI1y light that's stronger than this--kitchen--<:andle .**
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stanley says he got proof from reliable resources
scene 7, start
STANLEY:
Things I already suspected. But now I got proof from the most reliable sources-which I have checked on!
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STANLEY TELLS STELLA SHE STAYED IN THE FLAMINGO WHEN BELLE REVE SLIPPED THROUGH HE RLILY WHITE FINGERS
SCENE 7
after the home-place had slipped through her lily-
white fingers! She moved to the Fiarniogo! A second- class hotel which has the advantage of not interfering in the private social life of the personalities therel
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stanley says blanches place was out of bounds to army base in laurel
scene 7
did you know there
was an army camp near Laurell!Dd your sister's was one of the places called "Out-cf-Bounds"?
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STANELY SAYS THE BLANCHE GOT KICKED FROM THE SCHOOL BC OF RELATIONS W 17 YEAR OLD BOY
scene 7
A seventeen-year-old boy--she'd gotten mixed up withl
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stella says to stanley that banche found out that allan was a degenerate
SCENE 7
But when she was young, very young, she married a boy
who wrote poetry. . . . He was extremely good-looking. I
think Blanche didn't just love him but worshipped the
ground he walked onl Adored him and thought him al-
most too fine to be human But then she found -o u t -
STANLEY;
What?
STELLA;
This beautiful and talented young man was a degenerate.
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blanche says she feels good after her bath
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