Scene 1 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Stanley and Mitch are “roughly dressed
in blue denim work clothes”
“Stanley carries his
bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher’s”
“Catch!
What? Meat!”
“she laughs breathlessly”
“Her appearance is
incongruous to this setting. She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice”
“Her delicate
beauty must avoid a strong light”
“There is something about her uncertain manner
, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth”
“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire,
and transfer to one called Cemeteries”
“She pours a half
tumbler or whiskey and tosses it down. She carefully replaces the bottle
“I won’t be looked
at in this merciless glare!”
“you must have some liquor on the place!
Where could it be, I wonder? Oh, I spy, I spy!”
“Only Poe!
Only Mr Edgar Allan Poe! - could do it justice!”
“you’re just as plump
as a little partridge”
“Stanley is Polish, you know.
They’re something like the Irish, aren’t they?”
“A Master Sergeant
in the Engineers’ Corps”
“When he’s away for a week
I nearly go wild”
“And when he comes
back I cry on his lap like a baby…”
“I stayed and
fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!”
“Sometimes their breathing is hoarse,
and sometimes it rattles, and sometimes they even cry out to you”
“Animal joy in his
being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes”
“the centre of his life
has been pleasure with women”
“the power and pride
of a richly feathered male bird among hens”
“his appreciation of rough humour,
his love of good food and drink, his car, his radio, everything that is his, that bears his emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer”
“My clothes ‘re
stickin to me”
“You were married
once, weren’t you? The music of the polka rises up, faint in the distance… The boy - the boy died.”
