Streetcar Quotes Scene 6 Flashcards
(17 cards)
Summary:
After Blanche and Mitch’s date, she invites him back - they talk about their weight, Blanche tells him about Allan, etc, and Mitch comforts her - “you need somebody - and I need somebody too”.
“upside down, a plaster statuette of Mae West”
“Is that streetcar named Desire still grinding along the tracks at this hour?”
“Why do you always ask me if you may?” / “I was somewhat flattered that you - desired me” = key concept of “desire” driving Blanche.
Audience may want her to succeed - out of pity.
“A girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she’ll be lost!”
“I loved someone too, and the person I loved I lost” - blanche
“He was a boy, just a boy” - infantilisation, innocence = a criticism of what society drives the ‘other’ to, e.g gay men
Intrinsically linking love and death
- critical concept in American literature.
“I like you to be exactly the way you are” / “You just - do what you want to”
“You are not the delicate type” / “Punch me!” / “You are as light as a feather” / “[he hesitates for a moment] What’s yours?”
“Just give me a slap whenever I step out of bounds.” / “he fumblingly embraces her”
“I don’t think he understands you” (about Stanley)
“He is insufferably rude. Goes out of his way to offend me”.
“He stalks” / “No! To think of it makes me…” “then she finishes her drink”
“I loved someone too, and the person I loved I lost” / “I was slipping in with him!” / “I loved him unendurably but without being able to help him or help myself”.
“all I knew was I’d failed him in some mysterious way”.
“carnival games of chance”
“the headlight of the locomotive glares into the room” / “the polka stops abruptly”
“Sometimes - there’s God - so quickly!” = reach a climax, follows tragedy convention, gives the audience hope that Blanche will be alright.
