(English9ELO) Stanley's Attitude towards Property in A Streetcar Named Desire
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SD = Stage Directions
‘Building on a street in New Orleans which in named Elysian Fields,’ (SD pg 1)
‘It has a raffish charm,’ (SD, pg 1)
‘Relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town.’ (SD, pg 1)
‘Stanley, bellowing,’ (SD, pg 2)
‘Her appearance is incongruous to this setting.’ (SD on Blanche, pg 3)
‘There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests
a moth.’ (SD on B, pg 3)
‘It’s sort of messed up right now but when it’s clean it’s real sweet.’’ (Eunice to B on the
apartment, pg 4)
‘She pours half a tumbler of whisky and tosses it down.’ (B, pg 5)
‘I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare.’ (B, pg 6)
‘Where could it be I wonder?’ (B, on alcohol, pg 6)
‘I was on the verge of- lunacy almost!’ (B to Stella, about her leaving teaching, pg 8)
‘They’re a mixed lot, Blanche.’ (Stella to B ab Stanley’s friends, pg 9)
‘A different species.’ (Stella on Stanley, pg 9)
‘I stayed and struggled!’ (B to Stella on Belle Reve, pg 11)
‘I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!’ (B to Stella on Belle Reve, pg 11)
‘I took the blows in my face and my body!’ (B, death monologue pg 12)
‘’Why, the Grim Reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep!’ (B, death monologue, pg 12)
‘In bed with your - Polack!’ (B, death monologue, pg 12)
‘Stanley throws the screen of the door open.’ (SD pg 13)
‘Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements .’ (SD on Stanley, pg 13)
‘The power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens.’ (SD on Stan, pg 13)
‘Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often.’ (Stan to B on alcohol, pg 14)
‘The music of the polka rises up,’ (SD - polka on allan’s death, pg 15)
‘Now let’s have a gander at the bill of sale.’ (Stan to Stella, on Belle Reve, pg 17)
‘Have you ever heard of the Napoleonic code?’ (Stan to Stella, pg 18)
‘Jerks out an armful of dresses.’ (SD - Stan in B’s suitcase, pg 18)
‘Here I am, all freshly bathed and scented.’ (B to Stan, pg 20)
‘Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be- attractive?’ (B to Stan, pg 21)
‘Now that you’ve touched them I’ll burn them!’ (B to Stan on the love letters, pg 23)
‘Yes - I was flirting with your husband, Stella!’ (B to Stella, pg 25)
‘They are men at the peak of their physical manhoods,’ (SD pg 27)
‘Hurry back and we’ll fix you a sugar-tit.’ (Stan to M, pg 28)
“I think I will bathe.’ (B to Stella, pg 29)
‘That one seems - superior to the others.’ (B to Stella, ab Mitch, pg 30)
‘I haven’t noticed the stamp of genius even on Stanley’s forehead.’ (B to Stella, pg 30)
“And if God choose, I shall love but thee better- after death!’ (Inscription on M’s case, pg 33)
‘Sick people have such deep, sincere attachments.’ (B to M, pg 33)
‘Stanley stalks fiercely through the portieres into the bedroom..tosses the instrument out of
the window.’ (SD, radio, pg 35)
‘Drunk - drunk - animal thing, you!’ (Stella to Stan, pg 35)
‘There is the sound of a blow.’ (SD, pg 35)
‘I’ll keep on ringin’ till I talk with my baby!’ (Stan to Eunice, on Stella, pg 37)
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