A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

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  • Created on: 25-11-18 15:07
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  • Key Quotes
    • Blanche
      • 'I’m terrified!'
      • I want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again!
      • …I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your – Polack!
        • Please don’t get up.
      • No, one’s my limit.
      • I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!
      • The summer Dad died and you left us…
      • After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion…
      • I don’t know how much longer I can turn the trick
        • But I have been foolish - casting my pearls before swine!
          • Blanche
            • 'I’m terrified!'
            • I want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again!
            • …I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your – Polack!
              • Please don’t get up.
            • No, one’s my limit.
            • I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!
            • The summer Dad died and you left us…
            • After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion…
            • I don’t know how much longer I can turn the trick
              • But I have been foolish - casting my pearls before swine!
              • …I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone!
              • And funerals are pretty compared to deaths
              • There’s so much – so much confusion in the world…
                • I need kindness now.
                  • I didn’t lie in my heart…
              • an ocean as blue as my first lover’s eyes!
              • I was on the verge of — lunacy, almostt
                • That man will destroy me.
              • Intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty hearty with
              • I thought he had a sort of sensitive look
        • …I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone!
        • And funerals are pretty compared to deaths
        • There’s so much – so much confusion in the world…
          • I need kindness now.
            • I didn’t lie in my heart…
        • an ocean as blue as my first lover’s eyes!
        • I was on the verge of — lunacy, almostt
          • That man will destroy me.
        • Intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty hearty with
        • I thought he had a sort of sensitive look
      • Stanley
        • STELL-LAHHHHH!
        • I once went out with a doll who said to me, "I am the glamorous type, I am the glamorous type!" I said. "So what?"
        • Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried.
      • Under the Napoleonic code -
        • Since when do you give me orders?
          • '"Every Man is a King!" And I am the King around here, so don’t forget it!'
            • Be comfortable is my motto.
      • Stella
        • It’s a drive that he has
        • Oh, you can’t describe someone you’re in love with!
          • A different species
            • Stella
              • It’s a drive that he has
              • Oh, you can’t describe someone you’re in love with!
                • A different species
                • I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night…
                • It isn’t on his forehead and it isn’t genius.
                • Stanley doesn’t give me a regular allowance, he likes to pay bills himself
                • Blanche, do you want him?
                • I was – sort of – thrilled by it.
                • But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark – that sort of make everything else seem – unimportant
                • And admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness!
                • But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.
                • I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley.
          • I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night…
          • It isn’t on his forehead and it isn’t genius.
          • Stanley doesn’t give me a regular allowance, he likes to pay bills himself
          • Blanche, do you want him?
          • I was – sort of – thrilled by it.
          • But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark – that sort of make everything else seem – unimportant
          • And admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness!
          • But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.
          • I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley.

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