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A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotations- A Level English Literature
An extensive list of quotations for all characters from “A Streetcar Named Desire”. Designed for A Level English Literature.
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1.
“I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it”
Answer: Blanche du Bois Scene 1 Suffering at Belle Reve
2.
“His appreciation of rough humour, his love of good drink… his car, his radio, everything that is his”
Answer: Stanley Kowalski Scene 1 Typical working class man in the new American Dream
3.
“There weren’t any papers, she didn’t show me any papers. I don’t care about papers”
Answer: Stella Kowalski Scene 2 Protective of Blanche
4.
“Drunk- drunk- animal thing, you!”
Answer: Stella Kowalski Scene 3 Stella only acknowledges Stanley’s flaws when she can blame it on alcohol
5.
“Utter exhaustion which only a neurasthenic personality can know… stopping lifelessly… gravely”
Answer: Blanche du Bois Scene 5 Both Blanche and Mitch are drained from pretending.
6.
“Stella has embraced him, fiercely, and full in the view of Blanche…the music of the ‘blue piano’ and trumpet and drums is heard”
Answer: Stella Kowalski Scene 4 Stella’s desire has led her to Stanley- Blanche has lost her sister to this life.
7.
“I can’t stand a naked light-bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action”
Answer: Blanche du Bois Scene 3 Blanche refuses to participate in reality.
8.
“Say it’s only a paper moon… It’s a Barnum and Bailey world… but it wouldn’t be make-believe if you believed in me!
Answer: Blanche du Bois Scene 7 Tears down Blanche’s hopes (used contrapuntally with Stanley exposing her past)
9.
“He’ll deposit them one by one in a piggy bank his mother gave him for Christmas… [Mitch laughs uncomfortably]”
Answer: Stanley Kowalski Scene 3 Mitch is alienated amongst the other men
10.
“Such kinds of new light…That we have got to… cling to, and hold as our flags”
Answer: Blanche du Bois Scene 4 Blanche becomes Williams’ mouthpiece, arguing for the conservation of culture
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Blanche du Bois● “Her appearance is incongruous to the setting…daintily dressed in a white suit …as if
she were arriving at a summer tea or a cocktail party”
● “Delicate beauty must avoid a strong light…her white clothes…suggest a moth”
● “Take a streetcar named desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries”
● “[Begins to shake again with intensity]…I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost
died for it”
● “Death is expensive…Why, the Grim Reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep!”
● “[Drawing involuntarily back from his stare]”
● “Inexpensive summer furs…a rhinestone tiara”
● “Our improvident grandfathers and fathers and uncles and brothers exchanged the
land for their epic fornications”
● “Young man! Young, young, young- man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like
a young prince out of the Arabian Nights?”
● “Soft people have go to- shimmer and glow- put a- paper lantern over the light…
make a little- temporary magic just in order to pay for- one night’s shelter!”
● “In this dark march…don’t hang back with the brutes!”
● “Such things as art…such kinds of new light…that we have got to…cling to, and hold
as our flag”
● “Brutal desire- just- Desire!”
● “A bunch of bobby-soxers and drug-store Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne
and Whitman and Poe!”
● “Je suis la Dame aux Camellias! Vous êtes- Armand”
● “The searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and
never…since has there been any light that’s stronger than this- kitchen- candle…”
● “Candles burn out in little boys’ and girls’ eyes…electric light-bulbs go on and you
see too clearly”
● “The rapid, feverish polka tune, the ‘Varsouviana’ is heard…she is drinking to escape
it and the sense of disaster closing in on her”
● “I’ll tell you what I want. Magic!…I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be the truth”
● “A somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown…scuffed silver
slippers…the rhinestone tiara”
● “Lurid reflections…shadows of a grotesque and menacing form…the night is filled
with inhuman voices like cries in a jungle”
● “This place is a trap!”
● “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”
Stanley Kowalski
● “He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications”
● “Animal joy…the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird”
● “Leaving the door open on the perpetual blue piano”
● “The Napoleonic Code…when you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code I’m
swindled too. And I don’t like to be swindled”
● “A picture of Van Gogh’s of a billiard parlour at night…lurid brilliance, the raw colours
of a childhood’s spectrum”
● “Stalks fiercely…to the small white radio and…tosses the instrument out of the
window”
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