A Streetcar Named Desire

Don’t holler at me like __________.

that.

He heaves the package at her. She cries out in __________ but manages to catch it.

protest

Her appearance is __________ to this setting… looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district.

incongruous

Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light… there is something about her… that suggests a __________.

moth.

A great big place with __________.

white columns.

She pours a half tumbler of whiskey and __________ it down.

tosses

Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this __________ glare.

merciless

She is shaking all over and __________ for breath…the bottle nearly slips from her grasp.

panting

Now don’t get worried, your sister hasn’t turned into a __________.

drunkard.

What are you doing in a place like __________? Why, that you had to live in these conditions!

this

You’re all I’ve got in the world, and you’re not __________ to see me!

glad

No, one’s my __________.

limit.

You haven’t said a word about my __________.

appearance.

Daylight never exposed so total a __________!

ruin!

You know I haven’t put on one ounce in __________ years, Stella?

ten

You see I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are __________! [She laughs nervously and glances at Stella for reassurance] …[dutifully] They haven’t slipped one particle.

slipping

Polacks?…Heterogeneous __________?

types

I can’t be alone! Because, as you must have noticed, I’m not very __________ [Her voice drops and her look is frightened].

well

Try not to-well-compare him with __________ that we went out with at home.

men

Such as his __________ background!

civilian

I can hardly stand it when he is away for a __________… When he’s away for a week I nearly go wild!…And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.

night

You left! I stayed and struggled! You came to New Orleans and looked out for __________!

yourself

I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost __________ for it!

died

You’re a fine one to sit there __________ me of it!

accusing

All of those deaths! The long parade to the graveyard!…But had to be __________ like rubbish!

burned

Where were __________. In bed with your- Polak!

you

[Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes… Everything that is his, that bears his emblem of the gaudy __________. He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them.]

seed-bearer.

[drawing involuntarily back from his __________]

stare

[He holds the bottle to the light to observe its __________.]

depletion

No I-rarely touch __________.

it.

[He starts to remove his __________]

shirt

[The music of the polka rises up, faint in the distance] … The boy- the boy died [She sinks back down.] I’m afraid I’m- going to be __________!

sick

[vaguely] Oh, it had to be-sacrificed or __________.

something

When you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code I’m __________ too.

swindled

I’m willing to bet you there’s __________ of dollars invested in this stuff here!

thousands

[He kicks the trunk partly __________]

closed

Since when do you give me __________?

orders

Excuse me while I slip on my __________ new dress!!

pretty

[He crosses through drapes with a smouldering __________.]

look.

Oh, in my youth I excited some __________… Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be- attractive?

admiration

[Then playfully sprays him with it. He seizes the atomiser and slams it down on the __________.]

dresser.

Don’t play so dumb. You know __________!

what

What’s in the back of that little boy’s __________ of yours?

mind

The touch of your hands insults them!…[Blanche snatches them from him, and they cascade to the __________.]

floor

Now that you’ve touched them I’ll __________ them!

burn

I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt me, but you can’t! I’m not young and __________ anymore. But my young husband was and I—never mind about that!

vulnerable

Our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic __________—to put it plainly!

fornications

I think it’s wonderfully fitting that Belle Reve should finally be this bunch of old papers in your big, capable __________!

hands

Yes, I was flirting with your __________, Stella!

husband

The blind are- leading the __________!

blind!

The poker players…wear colored shirts…and they are men at the peak of their physical __________, as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colors.

manhood

[He lurches up and tosses some watermelon __________ to the floor.]

rinds

How do I look?…Lovely, __________.

Blanche.

Why no. You are as fresh as a daisy…One that’s been picked a few __________.

days

Please don’t get __________…Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried.

up.

[Stanley gives a loud __________ of his hand on her thigh.]

whack

[sharply] That’s not fun, Stanley…It makes me so mad when he does that in front of __________.

people.

[with awkward courtesy] How do you do, __________ DuBois?

Miss

No. Stanley’s the only one of his crowd that’s likely to get __________… It isn’t genius…It’s a drive that he has.

anywhere.

You hens cut out that conversation in there! //This is my house and I’ll talk as __________ as I want to!

much

[Stanley jumps up and, crossing to the radio, turns it __________.]

off

[He jumps up and jerks roughly at __________ to close them.]

curtains

And when he goes home he’ll deposit them one by one in a piggy bank his mother give him for __________.

Christmas.

The little there is belongs to people who have experienced some __________.

sorrow

I’m not accustomed to having more than one drink. __________ is the limit.

Two

We are French by extraction. Our first American ancestors were French __________.

Huguenots.

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a __________ action.

vulgar

No, no. I’m an old maid __________!

schoolteacher!

And in the spring, it’s touching to notice them making their first discovery of __________! As if nobody had ever known it before!

love!

[He crosses to the small white radio and snatches it off the table. With a shouted oath, he tosses the instrument out the __________.]

window.

Drunk — drunk — __________ thing, you!

animal

[Stanley charges after __________.]

Stella.

[There is the sound of a blow. Stella cries __________.]

out.

[in a high, unnatural voice, out of sight]. I want to go away, I want to go __________!

away!

Poker shouldn’t be played in a house with __________.

women.

Let the rut go of me, you sons of __________! [Sounds of blows are heard. The water goes on full tilt.]

bitches!

[He goes to the phone and dials, still shuddering with __________.]

sobs

[He hurls phone to __________.]

floor.

[with heaven-splitting violence]: __________!

STELL-LAHHHHH!

Her eyes are glistening with __________ and her hair loose about her throat and shoulders. They stare at each other. Then they come together with low, animal moans.

tears

So much confusion in the world…Thank you for being so __________! I need kindness now.

kind!

[Her eyes and lips have that almost __________ tranquility that is in the faces of Eastern idols.]

narcotized

It wasn’t anything as serious as you seem to take it when men are drinking and playing poker, anything can happen. It’s always a __________.

powder-keg.

No, it isn’t all right for anybody to make such a terrible row, but — people do sometimes. Stanley’s always __________ things.

smashed

He smashed all the __________ with the heel of my slipper!

light-bulbs.

I was—sort of—____________ by it.

thrilled

[slowly and emphatically] I’m not in anything I want to get __________ of.

out

It’s his pleasure, like mine is movies and bridge. People have got to __________ each other’s habits, I guess.

tolerate.

I won’t have you cleaning up for __________!

him!

We’ve got to get hold of some money, that’s the way __________!

out!

Y’know how indifferent I am to money. I think of money in terms of what it does for __________.

you.

This morning he gave me ten dollars to smooth things __________.

over.

Money just goes—it goes __________. [She rubs her forehead].

places.

What such a man has to offer is animal force… But the only way to live with such a man is to—go to __________ with him!

bed

I take it for granted that you still have sufficient memory of Belle Reve to find this place and these poker players __________ to live with.

impossible

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark— that sort of make everything else seem— __________.

unimportant.

What you are talking about is brutal __________—just-Desire!—the name of that rattle-trap street-car that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another.

desire

Then don’t you think your superior attitude is a bit out of __________?

place?

Well—if you’ll forgive me—he’s __________!

common!

Don’t—don’t hang back with the __________!

brutes!