Old South

• “gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay”
• Eunice: A big place with white columns. Blanche: Yes… Eunice: A place like that must be awful hard to keep up.
• Blanche: I know that youre bound to reproach me– but before you do-take into consideration– you left ! I stayed and struggled!
• Blanche:.. I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!
• STELLA: [vaguely] Oh it (Belle Reve) had to be - sacrificed or something. [There is a pause while Stanley considers].
• BLANCHE: [singing in the bathroom] From the land of sky blue water, they brought a captive maid!
• STELLA: ...you don’t know how ridiculous you are being when you suggest that my sister or I or anyone of our family could have perpetrated a swindle on anyone.
• STANLEY: here’s your plantation, or what’s left of it, here!
• STANLEY: the Kowalskis and the DuBois have different notions STELLA: [angrily] Indeed they have, thank heavens
• BLANCHE; …fathers and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications
• BLANCHE: maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now we’ve lost Belle Reve and have to go on without Belle Reve to protect us
• BLANCHE: Please don’t get up STANLEY: Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried.
• And cling to…as to hold our flag
• did you know there was an army camp near Laurel and your sister’s was one of the ones called Out of Bounds
• They told her she better move onto some fresh territory. Yep, it was pracktickly a town ordinance passed against her
• That pitch about your ideals being so old-fashioned and all the malarkey that you’ve dished out all summer. Oh I knew you weren’t sixteen anymore. But I was fool enough to think you were straight
• I lived in a house where dying old women remembered their dead men