scene 2 quotes (memorisation)

Blanche’s action

“bathing”

Stanley’s action on entering

“leaves the door open on the perpetual ‘blue piano’ around the corner”

When stella kisses stanley

“accepts with lordly composure”

Stella on papers

“She didn’t show me any papers, I don’t care about papers”

After stanley’s description of napoleonic code

Stella: “my head is swimming!”

Stella against stanley

direct adress - “you”, “don’t be such an idiot stanley!”

S+S on blanche’s property

Stanley: cynical//stella “inexpensive summer furs”
Stanley:”a crown for an empress//”a rhinestone tiara”

Stanley with blanche’s property

“hurls” “jerks” “fistful”
Wwhere are your pearls and gold bracelets?”

Stella’s exit

“snatches up her white hat and gloves”

Proxemics during S+S conversation

Blanche is in the other room, bathing (naked, in water)

Blanche after bathing

“all freshly bathed and scented, feeling like a new human being!”

Blanche flirting with stanley

“some buttons in back! You may enter!”
“now with the buttons”
“airily”, slips

Blanche + compliments

“I was fishing for a complement, stanley”

Blanche + colour

“life is too full of evasions and ambiguities” “I like an artist who paints in strong, bold colours”
“I don’t like pinks and creams”

Perfume

“playfully sprays (Stanley)” “seizes the atomizer…slams it down”

Blanche’s term for stanley

“little boy’s mind”

Blanche’s letters

‘love letters, yellowing with antiquity’ Stanley ‘snatches’, ‘rips off the ribbon’

Blanche on Alan

‘I hurt him in the way you would like to hurt me, but you can’t! I’m not young and vunrable anymore. But my young husband was and I—’

Belle Reve loss

‘exchanged for epic fornications’

Blanche on stanley

“yes - I was flirting with your husband, Stella!’

Blanche on Stella’s baby

“Stella for Star! How lovely to have a baby!”
“blue piano sounds louder”

Street noise + reaction

“red hots! Red hots!” —> “Blanche utters a sharp, frightened cry and shrinks away”
“blue piano and hot trumpet sound louder”

escapism

"I ought to get on a rocket that never comes down”