quotes

• "Oh, you can’t describe someone you’re in love with!"

  • Stella to stanley
  • scene 1
• "Turn that over-light off! Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare"

  • blanche to Stella
  • scene 1
  • techniques : Metaphor, motif, biblical allusion
• "I don’t like a bed that gives much. But there’s no door between the two rooms, and Stanley—will it be decent?"

  • blanche to Stella
  • scene 1
  • techniques : Metaphor, contrast, characterisation
• "When she comes in, be sure to say something nice about her appearance … And admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness!"

  • Stella to stanley
  • scene 2
  • techniques : Characterisation, juxtaposition, motif
• " What you are talking about is brutal desire–just–Desire!–the name of that rattle-trap street-car that bangs through the Quarter"

  • blanche to Stella
  • scene 4
  • techniques : Metaphor, consonance, motif, juxtaposition, onomatopoeia
• "Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the Arabian Nights?"

  • blanche to boy
  • scene 5
  • techniques : Literary allusion, symbolism
• "When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me"

  • blanche to Mitch
  • scene 5
  • techniques : Superlative, hyperbole, metaphor, motif
• "I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And if that’s sinful, then let me be damned for it!"

  • blanche to Mitch
  • scene 9
  • techniques : Tricolon, contrast, exclamatory language, biblical allusion
• "ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!"

  • blanche
  • scene 1
  • Elysian Fields being the Egyptian paradise after death
• "I thought you would never come back to this horrible place"

  • blanche to stella
  • scene 1
  • patronising
• "But you are the one that abandoned Belle Reve, not I! I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!"

  • blanche to Stella
  • scene 1
• "You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother."

  • Mitch to blanche
  • scene 9
• "I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley"

  • Stella
  • scene 11
• "This is my house and I’ll talk as much as I want to!"

  • Stella to stanley
  • scene 3
  • poker night
• "It looks to me like you have been swindled, baby, and when you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code I’m swindled too. And I don’t like to be swindled"

  • stanley to stella
  • scene 2
• "You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be—you and me, Blanche?"

  • Mitch to blanche
  • scene 6