SCENE 1 - A Streetcar Named Desire - Key Quotes

[a red-stained

package from a butcher's.]

[There is something about her uncertain manner,

as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.]

[Her appearance is

incongruous to this setting.]

"your home-place, the plantation."

"Belle Reve?"

"I've got to keep

hold of myself!"

"I won't be looked at

in this merciless glare!"

"A different

species."

"I wasn't just blinded

by all the brass."

"I stayed and fought for it, bled for it,

almost died for it!"

"I, I, I took the blows

in my face and my body!"

"The long parade

to the graveyard!"

"Why, the Grim Reaper had

put up his tent on our doorstep!"

[gaudy

seed-bearer.]

[He holds the bottle to the light

to observe its depletion.]

[The music of the

polka rises up]