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Stanley key quotes
a streetcar named desire stanley key quotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -"two men come around the corner, Stanley Kowalski and Mitch..." | -"they are dressed in blue denim work clothes" -scene 1 -costuming, stage direction, characterization |
| -"Stella! Catch..." | -"Meat!" -scene 1 -dialogue |
| -"the animal joy in his being is implicit... | -"since earliest manhood the center of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it. Not with weak indulgence, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird" -stage direction, characterization, animal motif |
| -"he sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications... " | -"crude images flashing into his mind determining the way he smiles at them" -scene 1 -stage direction, characterization |
| -"practically a different..." | -"species!" -scene 1 -dialogue, animal motif |
| -"I can hardly stand it when he's away for a night...when he's away for a week I nearly go wild..." | -"and when he comes back, I cry on his lap like a baby!" -scene 1 - dialogue |
| -"everything that is his bears the emblem..." | -"of the gaudy seed bearer" -scene 1 - stage direction, characterization |
| -"you'd better give me some money!" | -"since when do you give me orders?" -scene 2 -dialogue |
| -"It looks to me like you've been swindled baby and when you're swindled, under the napoleonic code..." | -"I'm swindled, and I don't like being swindled" -scene 2 -dialogue |
| -”under the napoleonic code a man has to take interests in his wife’s affairs..." | -"especially now that she's having a baby" -scene 2 -dialogue |
| "you're simple, straight forward..." | -"a little on the primitive side" -scene 2 -dialogue, animal motif |
| -"he rips off the ribbon and..." | -"starts to exam them" -scene 2 -stage direction |
| - they are men at the peak of their physical manhood..." | -" as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colours" -scene 3 -stage direction, simile |
| -he lurches up..." | -"and tosses some watermelon rinds to the floor" -scene 3 -stage direction |
| -"shut up ...ah for god's sake go home then..." | -"hurry back and we'll fix you a sugar tit" -scene 3 -dialogue |
| -"Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh | -"the men laugh 'that's not fun Stanley" -scene 3 -dialogue, stage direction |
| -Stanley stalks fiercely into the bedroom. he crosses to the small white radio. With a shouted oath he tosses the instrument out of the window. | -"With a shouted oath he tosses the instrument out of the window.-" -scene 3 -stage direction |
| -"i hope they haul you in..." | -" and turn the firehose on you same as last time." -scene 3 -stage direction |
| -with heaven-splitting violence..." | -"STELLAAAAAAAA" -scene 3 -stage direction, dialogue |
| -they come together with..." | -"low animal moans" -scene 3 -stage direction, animal motif |
| -"Stanley's always smashed things... on out wedding night..." | -"he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing the light bulbs with it." -scene 4 -dialogue |
| -"There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark ..." | -"that sort of make everything else seem unimportant." -scene 4 -dialogue |
| -"he acts like an animal- has animal habits..." | -here he is -stanley kowalski- last survivor of the stone age." -scene 4 -monologue, animal motif |
| -"stella has embraced him..." | -"over her head he grins through the curtain at Blanche." -scene 4 -stage direction |
| -"shaw is under the impression he met you in laurel..." | -.. at a hotel called the flamingo " -scene 5 -dialogue |
| -Stanley-"Mitch is a buddy of mine! ..." | -"you think I could face him if..." -scene 7 -dialogue |
| -"Just to make sure i bought her ticket myself. a bus ticket!..." | -"back to laurel, on the greyhound!" -scene 7 -dialogue |
| -"Don't ever talk that way to me!..." | -"Polack-pig- vulgar-greasy!" -scene 8 -dialogue |
| -"Stell its gonna be alrright after she goes, god honey its going to be sweet when we can make noises in the night the way we used to..." | -"and get them coloured lights going." -scene 8 -dialogue |
| -"You needn't be as cruel..." | - "to someone as alone as she is." -scene 8 -dialogue |
| "and wasn't we happy together...till she showed here..." | -". Hoity-toity describing me as an ape." -scene 8 -dialogue, animal motif |
| -"I've been onto you..." | -"from the start!" -scene 10 -dialogue |
| -"Tiger! Tiger! Drop the bottle! Drop it!..." | -"We've had this date with each other since the beginning." -scene 10 -dialogue |
| -"He crosses to t he dressing table..." | -" and seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the lightbulb" -scene 11 -stage direction, symbolism |
| "Now honey, now love, now now love..." | -"He kneels beside her and his fingers find the opening of her blouse" -scene 11 -stage direction |
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georgieN007
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