STREETCAR KEY QUOTES

Scene One (5)

“weathered grey”, “faded white”, “dim white”, “turquoise”

“her appearance is incongruous to this setting”

“white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and ear-rings of pearl, white gloves and hat”

“Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light”

“you’ve put on some weight […] And it’s so becoming to you!”, “I weigh what I weighed the summer you left Belle Reve”

Scene Two (3)

“pulls up a fistful of costume jewellery”

“Maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now”

“The blind are – leading the blind”

Scene Three: Poker Night (4)

“A picture of Van Gogh’s of a billiard parlour at night”

“Solid blues”, “purple”, “light green”, “as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colours”

“Please don’t get up”, “Nobody’s going to get up”

“Blanche crosses into the bedroom and partially closes the portières”

Scene Three: Blanche and Mitch (4)

“That one seems – superior to the others”

“He strikes a match and moves closer”

“I bought this adorable little coloured paper lantern at a Chinese shop on Bourbon. Put it over the light bulb!”

“I can’t stand a naked light-bulb!”

Scene Three: Stella and Stanley (4)

“Stanley stalks fiercely”, “snatches”, “tosses”

“Drunk – drunk – animal thing, you!”

“with low, animal moans”

“Her eyes go blind with tenderness”

Scene Four (5)

“Her face is serene in the early morning sunlight”, “almost narcotized tranquillity”

“her appearance entirely contrasts with Stella’s. She presses her knuckles nervously to her lips”

“he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing the light-bulbs”

“I was – sort of – thrilled by it”

“Stella has embraced him with both arms, fiercely, and full in the view of Blanche”

Scene Five (7)

“A clatter of aluminium”, “angry roar”, “ crash”

“Have got to be seductive – put on soft colours, the colour of butterfly wings, and glow”

“the softy people have got to – shimmer and glow – put a – paper lantern over the light”

“Stella pours the coke into the glass. It foams over and spills”, “Right on my pretty white skirt!”

“Eunice shrieks with laughter and runs down the steps. Steve bounds after her”

“An hour isn’t an hour – but a little bit of Eternity dropped in your hands – and who knows what to do with it?”

“I’ve got to be good and keep my hands off children”

Scene Six (5)

“I’m looking for the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters”

“I weigh two hundred and seven pounds and I’m six feet one and a half inches tall”

“something different about this boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn’t like a man’s”

“Polka music sounds, in a minor key faint in the distance”

“Never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this – kitchen – candle”

Scene Seven (5)

“it’s only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea”

“when she was young, very young, she had an experience that – killed her illusions”

“This beautiful and talented young man was a degenerate”

“Her future is mapped out for her”

“The distant piano goes into a hectic breakdown”

Scene Eight (2)

“‘Every Man is a King!’ And I am the king around here”, “He hurls a cup and saucer to the floor”

“Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change”

Scene Nine (8)

“She has on her scarlet satin robe.”

“blue denim shirt and pants. He is unshaven”

“He tears the paper lantern off the light-bulb”

“I don’t want realism”, “I’ll tell you what I want. Magic!”

“I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth”

“He turns on the light and stares at her. She cries out and covers her”

“panic that drove me from one to another, hunting”

“You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother”

Scene Ten (6)

“slams the mirror face down with such violence that the glass cracks”

“The inhuman jungle voices rise up”

“maybe you wouldn’t be bad to – interfere with”

“She smashes a bottle on the table and faces him, clutching the broken top”

“We’ve had this date with each other from the start”

“The hot trumpet and drums from the Four Deuces sound loudly”

Scene Eleven (4)

“Don’t ever believe it. Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you’ve got to keep on going”

‘It’s Della Robbie blue. The blue of the robe in the old Madonna pictures”

“seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the light-bulb”, “She cries out as if the lantern was herself”

“places the child in her arms . It is wrapped in a pale blue blanket”