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A Streetcar Named DesireBlanche’s Monologue from Scene 1
I, I, I took the blows in my face and my body! All of those deaths! The long parade to the
graveyard! Father, mother! Margaret, that dreadful way! So big with it, it couldn't be put in a
coffin! But had to be burned like rubbish! You just came home in time for the funerals,
Stella. And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths--not always.
Sometimes their breathing is hoarse, and sometimes it rattles, and sometimes they even cry
out to you, "Don't let me go!" Even the old, sometimes, say, "Don't let me go." As if you
were able to stop them! But funerals are quiet, with pretty flowers. And, oh, what gorgeous
boxes they pack them away in! Unless you were there at the bed when they cried out, "Hold
me!" you'd never suspect there was the struggle for breath and bleeding. You didn't dream,
but I saw! Saw! Saw! And now you sit there telling me with your eyes that I let the place go!
How in hell do you think all that sickness and dying was paid for? Death is expensive, Miss
Stella! And old Cousin Jessie's right after Margaret's, hers! Why, the Grim Reaper had put up
his tent on our doorstep!... Stella. Belle Reve was his headquarters! Honey--that's how it
slipped through my fingers! Which of them left us a fortune? Which of them left a cent of
insurance even? Only poor Jessie--one hundred to pay for her coffin. That was all, Stella!
And I with my pitiful salary at the school. Yes, accuse me! Sit there and stare at me, thinking
I let the place go! I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your--Polack!
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