Streetcar Quotes Flashcards
(25 cards)
Stanley and Stella about Blanche
A crown for an empress! // A Rhinestone tiara she wore to a costume ball
Stanley divide
The Kowalskis and the Dubois have different notions
Blanche comic
It looks like my trunk has exploded
Blanche about Stanley
You’re simple, straightforwardand honest, a little bit on the primitive side
Stanley card motif
Lay … her cards on the table
Blanche understnads Stanley
I have an idea she doesn’t understand you as well as I do
Blanche and Stanley
Atomiser
[She sprays herself with her atomizer; then playfully sprays him with it. He seizes the atomizer and slams it down on the dresser
Blanche vulnerability
I’m not young and vulnerable anymore
Blanche charm
After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion
Blanche describes Stanley as … whilst he overhears
Sub-human
Blanche’s ideals
Old-fashioned ideals
Mitch to Blanche Light
I don’t think I have ever seen you in the light
Flower seller
‘Flores para los muertos’ … [gaudy tin flowers that lower-class Mexicans display at funerals]
Blanche pigs
casting her pearls before swine
Blanche about Mitch
I gave him his walking papers
Blanche
caught in a trap
breakdown
‘Lurid reflections’ ‘inumane voices’
Blanche needs to be near stella
I can’t be alone. Because - as you must have noticed - I’m not very well
Mitch’s embrace
Sometimes - there’s - God so quickly
Route to the flat
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields
Vendors - cultural melting pot
Red hots! Red hots!
Blanche infantilising
The boy died
Blanche about her name
Dubois means wood and Blanche means white
Blanche to Stella about relationship with Stanley
What you are talking about is desire - just brutal Desire.
