A Streetcar Named Desire Scenes 1-11 Quotes

I won’t be looked at

in this merciless glare

I,I,I took the blows

on my face and my body

I was on the verge of

lunacy almsot

This-can this be

her home?

Yp’re just as plump

as a little partridge

You’re a fine one

to ask me how it went!

the boy-

the boy died

I haven’t washed or even powdered my face yet

and here you are

She pours a half tumbler of whiskey

and tosses it down

-Only poe, only mr Edgar Allen Poe

could do it justice

Can I

come watch?

(a little wearily) It’s just incredible

Blanche, how well you’re looking

she laughs

breathlessly

a gentle young woman,

of a background obviously quite different to her husbands

(mildly) Don’t holler

at me like that

When he’s gone for a week

I nearly go wild

roughly dressed in

blue denim work clothes

(Bellowing) Hi there!

Stella,Baby!

his love of good drink and food

and games, his car, his radio

My clothes are sticking to me

do you mind if I make myself comfortable?

he heaves the

package at her

richly feathered

male bird among hens

The kowalski’s and the dubois have

very different notions

Would you think it possible that I

was once considered attractive

I cannot understand any witch of a woman casting

a spell over you

These are love letters,

yellowing with antiquity, all from one boy

Everyone has something he won’t let others touch

because of their- intimate nature

Have you heard of

the Napeoleonic code?

The poor thing was out there listening to us

and I have an idea she doesn’t understand you as well as I do

I have a lawyer acquaintance

who will study these out

and flirted! Yes -

I was flirting with your husband Stella

Now that you’ve touched them

I’ll burn them

I gotta sick mother

She don’t go to sleep until I come in at night

I feel so hot and frazzled

Wait till I powder before you open the door

You hens cut out

the conversation in there

You may touch school

but you are certainly no old maid

you lay your hands on me

and I’ll-

All of you- please go home

If any of you have any spark of decency in you-

What’s the matter,

what’s happened?

Poker should not be played

in a house with women

Stella! My Baby

doll’s left me

I want my baby!

Eunice, I’ll keep on ringing until I talk to my baby

There’s nothing to be scared of

They’re crazy about each other

Thank you for being so kind.

I need kindness now

Stella is lying down in the bedroom.

Her face is serene in the early morning sunlight

Her eyes and lips have the that almost narcotised tranquility

that is in the face of eastern idols

He was as good as a lamb when I came back

and he’s really very,very ashamed of himself

Why, on our wedding night - soon as we came in here-

he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed around the place smashing lightbulbs with it

And you - you let him?

didn’t run, didn’t scream?

I was- sort of -

thrilled by it

Of course you remember

Shep Huntleigh

Honey would I be here

if the man weren’t married

She goes to the dressing table and grabs up a sheet of kleenex

and an eyebrow pencil for writing equipment

`Don’t don’t laugh at me, Stella! Please,please don’t -

I-I want you to look at the contents of my purse!

On the contrary, I saw him at his best!

what such a man has to offer is animal force and he gave a wonderful exhibition of that!

Now don’t say it was one of those mysterious electric things between people!

If you do I’ll laugh in your face

But there are things that happen betwen a man and a woman in the dark-

that sort of make everything else seem unimportant

What you are talking about is brutal desire -just- desire!

the name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the quarter

Have you ever ridden on that streetcar?

It brought me here - Where I’m not wanted and where I am ashamed to be…

May I - speak - plainly

Yes, do. Go ahead. As plainly as you want to

Bearing the raw meet home

from the kill in the jungle

Don’t don’t hang back

with the brutes

Maybe we are a long way from being made in Gods image, but Stella, my sister

there has been some progress since then

Stella has embraced him with both arms, fiecely and full in the view of Blanche

He laughs and clasps her head to him

A clatter of aluminium striking a wall is heard,

followed by a man’s angry roar, shouts and overturned furniture

I’m compiling a notebook of quaint

little words and phrases I’ve picked up here

I bet you were born under Aries. Aries people are forceful and dynamic. They dote on noise,

They love to bang things around!

Stanley was born just five minutes after christmas

Capricorn- the goat

What’s Virgo?

Virgo is the virgin

The hotel Flamingo is not the sort

of establishment I would dare to be seen in!

Steve’s arm is around Eunice’s shoulder and she

is sobbing luxuriously and he is cooing love words

put a

paper lantern over the light

put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings

and glow

because it was storm - all storm

and I was -caught in the centre

`you’ve got to be soft and attractive

and I - I’m fading now

right on my

pretty white skirt

I want his respect

and men don’t want anything they get too easy

The black woman

snaps her fingers before his belt

Has anyone ever told you

that you look like s young prince out of the arabian nights

I want to kiss you -just once-

softly and sweetly on the mouth

but I’ve got to be good

and keep my hands off children

My Rosenkavalier!

Bow to me first!

That one says the lady must entertain the gentleman

-or no dice

he shuffles and

coughs a little

I guess you are used to girls that like to be lost

The kind that get lost immediately on the first date

We are going to be very bohemian

we are going to pretend that we are sitting in a little artists cafe on the left bank in Paris

Je suis la Dame aux Camellias

Vous etes-Artmand!

I’m looking for Pleidaes, the seven sisters

but these girls are not out tonight

voulez-vous couchez avec moi soir?

Vous ne comprenenz pas? Ah quel dommage!

I work out there with the weights and I swim and I keep myself fit

It is so hard that a man can punch me in the belly and it don’t hurt me

I weigh two hundred and seven pounds

and I’m six foot one and a half tall in my bare feet

What’s yours?

my weight?

You are an old friend of Stanley’s?

We was together in the two forty first

perhaps in some perverse kind of way he-No!

To think of it makes me…

When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -love

All at once and much, much too completely

It was like you suddenly turned a

blinding light on something ythat had always been half in shadow

He was in the quicksands and clutching me -

but I wasn’t holding him out, I was slipping in with him

A locomotive is heard approaching outside

sh claps her hands to her ears and crouches over

We danced the

Varsouviana

and then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again

and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than that-kitchen-candle