Blanche Dubois

• [She has spent a sleepless night and her appearance entirely contrasts with Stella's] - Scene Four
• 'Your fix is worse than mine is!' - Blanche, Scene Four
• 'I saw him at his best! What such a man has to offer is animal force' - Blanche, Scene Four
• 'What you are talking about is brutal desire - just - Desire! - the name of that trattle-trap streetcar ... It brought me here. - Where I'm not wanted and where I'm ashamed to be...' - Blanche, Scene Four
• 'There's something downright - bestial - about him!' - Blanche, Scene Four
• 'His poker night! - you call it - this party of apes!' - Blanche, Scene Four
• 'I want to deceive him enough to make him - want me' - Blanche, Scene Five
• 'got to be seductive - put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings, and glow - make a little - temporary magic' - Blanche, Scene Five
• 'the lady must entertain the gentleman' - Blanche, Scene Six
• 'He is insufferably rude. Goes out of his way to offend me.' - Blanche, Scene Six
• 'He came to me for help ... He was in the quicksands and clutching at me - but I wasn't holding him out, I was slipping in with him!' - Blanche, Scene Six
• 'A hot bath and a long, cold drink always gives me a brand-new outlook on life!' - Blanche, Scene Seven
• 'I hope candles are going to glow in his life ... electric light-bulbs go on and you see too plainly' - Blanche, Scene Six
• 'You healthy Polack, without a nerve in your body, of course you don't know what anxiety feels like!' - Blanche, Scene Eight
• 'I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth.' - Blanche, Scene Nine
• 'After the death of Allan - intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with' - Blanche, Scene Nine
• 'I met you. You said you needed somebody. Well, I needed somebody, too. I thanked God for you' - Blanche, Scene Nine
• [Blanche has been drinking fairly steadily since Mitch left] - Scene Ten
• 'it was foolish of me to think that we could ever adapt ourselves to each other' - Blanche, Scene Ten
• 'I'm anxious to get out of here - this place is a trap!' - Blanche, Scene Eleven
• 'Those cathedral bells - they're the only clean thing in the Quarter' - Blanche, Scene Eleven
• 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers' - Blanche, Scene Eleven