A Streetcar Named Desire: Masculinity Quotes

Scene 1

Page 8: "Meat!...He heaves the package at her." 

Page 9: "Yes, types is right!" 

Page 10: "A different species." 

Page 13: "strongly, compactly built." 

"Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes." 

"the centre of his life has been pleasure with women...with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens." 

"his appreciation of rough humour, his love of good drink and food and games" 

"He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications" 

Scene 2

Page 16: "he accepts with lordly composure" 

Page 18: "Have you ever heard of the Napoleonic code?" 

"I don't like to be swindled." 

"jerks out an armful of dresses." 

Page 19: "hurls the furs to the daybed." 

"Since when do you give me orders?" 

Page 20: "You men with your big clumsy fingers." 

Page 21: "Some men are took in by this Hollywood glamour stuff and some men are not." 

"little bit on the primative side"

Page 24: "a man has to take an interest in his wife's affairs" 

Scene 3

Page 27: "wear coloured shirts, solid blues...they are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as course and direct and powerful as the primary colours." 

Page 29: "Stanley gives a loud…