Streetcar Themed Quotes Flashcards
(39 cards)
Blanche says in scene 1 that adds to the fantasy/ illusion
“ I can’t be alone! Because- as you must have noticed- I’m not very well…”
Blanche scene 2 about a woman’s charm
“ after all, a woman’s charm is 50% illusion.”
What Blanche says about desire to add to the fantasy in scene 4
“ it brought me here- where I’m not wanted and ashamed to be”
What does Blanche say in. Scene 5 to the young boy
“ young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like that young prince from Arabian nights?”
The song about moons in scene 7
“ it’s only a paper moon, just as phoney as can be- but it wouldn’t be make believe if you believed in me!”
Candles and aunties scene 8
“ his aunty knows that candles aren’t safe that candles can burn out in little boys and girls’ eyes.”
Blanche doesn’t want… scene 9
“ I don’t want realism! I’ll tell you what I want, magic!”
Blanche’s final scene about the sea
“ I can smell the sea air. The rest of my time I’m going to spend on the sea.”
First line of the play with Stanley s1
“Meat… [he heaves the package at her.]”
Stanley being violent to Stella
“He gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh”
Stanley Kowalski…
Survivor of the Stone Age!
Capricorn-
The goat!
“I’m ashamed of the way I perspire…
My shirt is sticking to me”
That girl calls me
Common!
But I have been foolish…
Casting my pearls before swine!”
“You…you…you…
Brag… brag… bull… bull!”
“Polacks?”
“Yes a different species.”
“He seizes the atomiser…
And slams it down on the dresser.”
“Hurry back and we’ll fix you a…
Sugar tit!”
“ don’t- don’t hang back with the…
Brutes!”
I’d suddenly said…
I know! I know! You disgust me!”
But sister Blanche is no lily…
Ha ha! Some lily she is.”
Remember what Huey Long said- “every man is a king…”
And I’m the king around here!”
Your not clean enough to bring
Into the house with my mother!”
