Quotes Flashcards
(105 cards)
Opening Stage Directions: ‘Two women, one…
…white and one coloured’
Opening Stage Directions: ‘warm and easy…
…intermingling of races’
SD about Stella: ‘a gentle young woman…of a…
…background obviously quite different from her husband’s’
‘Catch!’…
…’What?’ ‘Meat!’
‘He heaves the package at her…
…She cries out in protest but manages to catch it’
About entry of Blanche: ‘Her appearance…
…is incongruous to this setting’
Dress of Blanche: ‘She is daintily dressed in a white…
…suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and ear-rings of pearl, white gloves and hat’
Blanche beauty and light: ‘Her delicate beauty…
…must avoid a strong light’
Blanche: ‘That suggests…
…a moth’
Blanche light: ‘turn that over-light off!…
…Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!’
Blanche appearance: ‘Daylight never exposed…
…so total a ruin!’
Stella about Stanley: ‘A Master Sergeant…
…in the Engineers’ Corp. Those are decorations!’
Blanche Belle Reve: ‘The loss..
…-the loss…’
‘Why, the grim…
…reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep!’
‘Animal…
…joy’
‘Since earliest manhood…
…the centre of his life had been pleasure with women’
‘With the power and…
…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’
‘Blanche’s dress, a flowered…
…print, is laid out on Stella’s bed’
‘Have you ever…
…hear of the Napoleonic code?’
‘He stalks…
…into the bedroom’
‘Jerks…
…out an armful of dresses’
‘He hurls the furs to the daybed…
…Then he jerks open a small drawer in the trunk and pulls up a fistful of costume jewellery’
‘I like an artist…
…who paints in strong, bold colours, primary colours. I don’t like pinks and creams and I never care for wish-washy people’