Streetcar

• "red satin robe"
• "admire her dress and tell her she's looking wonderful. thats important with Blanche"
• "centre of his life has been pleasure with women"
• "she jumps up and kisses him which he accepts with lordly composure"
• "dont ever talk to me that way! pig - disgusting - greasy"
• "I am the king around here, so dont you forget it"
• "you've got to be soft and attractive"
• "after the death of Allan - intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with"
• "Stanley doesn't give me regular allowance, he likes to pay bills himself"
• "whatever belongs to my wife is also mine"
• "Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear"
• "without waiting for him to accept, she crosses quickly and presses her lips to his"
• "a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion"
• "I don't want realism. I want magic!"
• "Stella has embraced him with both arms, fiercely, and full in the view of Blanche... over her head he grins through the curtains at blanche"
• "her appearance is incongruous to the setting"
• "I never met a woman that didn't know if she was good looking or not"
• "you didn't know blanche as a girl. nobody was as tender and trusting as she was. but people like you abused her and forced her to change"
• ONYETT: "stanley strips her of her psychological, sexual and cultural identity"
• ONYETT: "blanch has become a social outcast because she refuses to conform to conventional moral values"
• MCGINN: "her refusal to accept blanche's story of rape is a commitment to self-preservation rather than love"
• TEMPLETON: "blanche is just as responsible for her own fall as the old south is for its own demise"
• KIRBY: "sanity is dependant on fitting in and adhering to social roles expected of us"
• KAZAN: "the truth dooms her"