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Stella key quotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -"a gentle young woman, about 25..." | -"and of a background clearly quite different from her husband" -scene 1 -stage direction |
| -"Blanche you sit down and..." | -"let me pour the drinks" -scene 1 |
| -"It's just incredible Blanche..." | -"how well you're looking" -scene 1 -dialogue |
| -"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 |
| -"you'd better give me some..." | -"money" -scene 2 -dialogue |
| -"those are inexpensive summer furs that Blanche has had a long time..." | -"...don't be such an idiot stanley!" -scene 2 -dialogue |
| -"that's not fun stanley..." | -"it makes me so mad when he does that in front of people" -scene 3 -dialogue |
| -"how's your mother..." | -"mitch?" -scene 3 -dialogue |
| -"Stanley's the only one of his crowd thats likely to get anywhere..." | -"...It's a drive that he has." -scene 3 -dialogue |
| -"drunk, drunk, animal thing you..." | -"...you lay your hands on me and I'll!" -scene 3 -dialogue |
| -"they come together with low, animal moans..." | -"...her eyes go blind with tenderness" -scene 3 -stage direction |
| -"her eyes and lips have that almost narcotized tranquility that..." | -"is in the faces of eastern idols" -scene 4 -stage direction |
| -he didn't know what he was doing..." | -"he was as good as a lamb when I came back" -scene 4 -dialogue |
| -"I was sort of..." | -"thrilled by it" -scene 4 -dialogue |
| -"people have got to tolerate each other's habits..." | -"I guess" -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 |
| -"stella has embraced him with both arms..." | -"fiercely, and in full view of blanche" -scene 4 -stage direction |
| -"I like to wait on you blanche..." | -"it makes it seem more like home" -scene 5 -dialogue |
| -"its pure invention..." | -"there's not a word of truth to it" -scene 7 -dialogue |
| -"Mr Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself to think of anything else..." | -"Your face and fingers are disgustingly greasy. Go and wash up and then help me clear the table." -scene 8 -dialogue |
| -"I don't know if I did the right thing..." | -"I couldn't believe her story and go on living with stanley" -scene 11 -dialogue |
| -"what have I done to my sister?..." | -"oh god, what have I done to my sister!" -scene 11 -dialogue |
| -"oh my god Eunice help me! Don't let them do that to her, don't let them hurt her!..." | -"oh god please!" -scene 11 -dialogue |
| -"Blanche!" Blanche!.." | -"Blanche!" -scene 11 -dialogue |
| "she sobs with inhuman abandon..." | -"there is something luxurious in her complete surrender to crying now that her sister is gone" -scene 11 -stage direction, pathos |
| -"he kneels beside her..." | -" and his fingers find the opening of her blouse" -scene 11 -stage direction |