Streetcar: Heroines

I’m looking for my sister, Stella DuBois,

I mean — Mrs Stanley Kowalski

Blanche,

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[Incongruous

to this setting]

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Honey, that’s how it slipped through

my fingers. Which of them left us a fortune? Which of them left us a cent of insurance even?

Blanche,

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We thrashed it out […] I called him a little boy and

laughed and flirted. Yes, I was flirting with your husband!

Blanche,

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[Tensely] I wonder

if it’s for me.

Blanche,

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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire,

and then transfer to one called Cemeteries.

Blanche,

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You make

my mouth water

Blanche,

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But there are things that happen between a

man and a woman in the dark — that sort of make everything else seem — unimportant.

Stella,

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[He picks up

her inert figure and carries her to the bed.]

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[There is something about her white clothes,

as well as her uncertain manner, that suggests a moth.]

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You were married once, weren’t you? [The music

of the polka rises up, faint in the distance.]

Stanley,

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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman’s charm

is fifty percent illusion, but when a thing is important, I tell the truth

Blanche,

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Lo and behold, the place has turned into Egypt and you are

Queen of the Nile! Sitting on your throne and swilling down my liquor.

Stanley,

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Don’t ever believe it. Life has got to go on. No

matter what happens, you’ve got to keep on going.

Eunice,

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You’re both mistaken. It’s Della Robbia blue. The

blue of the robe in the old Madonna pictures. Are those grapes washed?

Blanche,

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[holding tight to his arm] Whoever you are —

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Blanche,

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I don’t know you — I don’t know you. I want to

be — left alone — please!

Blanche,

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What have I done to my sister?

Oh, God, what have I done to my sister?

Stella,

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[…] you don’t know how ridiculous you are being when you suggest

that my sister or I or anyone of our family could have perpetrated a swindle on anyone else.

Stella,

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Stanley: A crown for an empress! Stella: A

rhinestone tiara she wore to a costume ball.

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Darling Shep. Sister and I

are in a desperate situation.

Blanche,

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