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Women / womanliness in Streetcar Extracts
Compilation of quotes and extracts from streetcar named desire supporting womanliness and femininity.
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Women or womanliness in Streetcar_ExtractsBlanche comes around the corner, carrying a valise. She looks at a slip of paper, then at the
building, then again at the slip and again at the building. Her expression is one of shocked
disbelief. Her appearance is incongruous to this setting. She is daintily dressed in a white
suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if
she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district. She is about five
years older than Stella. Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something
about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.]
EUNICE [finally]: What's the matter, honey? Are you lost?
STELLA: He's on the road a good deal.
BLANCHE: Oh. Travels?
STELLA: Yes.
BLANCHE: Good. I mean-isn't it?
STELLA [half to herself] : I can hardly stand it when he is away for a
night ..
BLANCHE: Why, Stellal
STELLA: When he's away for a week I nearly go wild !
BLANCHE: Gracious!
STELLA: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby ... [She
smiles to herself]
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, [More laughter and shouts of parting come from the men. Stanley throws the screen
door of the kitchen open and comes in. He is of medium height, about five feet eight or
nine, and strongly, compactly built. Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his
movements and attitudes. Since earliest manhood the center of his life has been
pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence,
dependently, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens.
Branching out from this complete and satisfying center are all the auxiliary channels of
his life, such as his heartiness with men, his appreciation of rough humor, his love of
good drink and food and games, his car, his radio, everything that is his, that bears his
emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer. He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual
classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles
at them.]
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STELLA [with girlish laughter] : You ought to see their wives.
BLANCHE [laughingly]: I can imagine. Big, beefy things, I suppose.
STELLA: You know that one upstairs? [More laughter] One time [laughing] the plaster-
[laughing] cracked.
STANLEY: You hens cut out that conversation in there!
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