Scene 1 Flashcards
BLANCHE
“Her appearance is incongruous to this setting”
“She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice… looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district”
“Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light”
“Something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.”
“Springs up and crosses … removes a whiskey bottle … tosses it down”
“I’ve got to keep hold of myself!”
“you left! I stayed and struggled! You came to New Orleans and looked out for yourself! I stayed at Belle Reve and tried to hold it together!”
“Sit there and stare at me, thinking I let the place go! I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your - Polak!”
“I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone!”
“You were married once, were’nt you?
/Polka
/The boy- the boy died”
STELLA
“a gentle young woman… a background obviously quite different from her husbands”
“STANLEY [bellowing]’ vs. ‘STELLA [mildly]”
STANLEY
“Meat!”
“Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes.”
“I was never a very good English student”
“his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it… the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens”
