stanley

• “Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red stained package from the butchers”
• “he heaves the package at her. She cries out in protest but manages to catch it; then she laughs breathlessly”
• Stella: they're a mixed lot, Blanche. Blanche: heterogeneous– types?
• Stella: Yes. A different species. (of Stanley)
• Stella: But of course there were things to adjust myself to later on.
• Animal joy in his being implicit in all his movements and attitudes. Since earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women.
• The power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens
• His embelem of the gaudy seed bearer; he sizes women up ata glance, with sexual classifications
• Stanley: Not in my territory. Liquor goes fast in hot weather [he holds the bottle to the light to observe its depletion]
• Stanley: My clthes’re stickin’ to me. Do you mind if I make myself comfortable? [he starts to remove his shirt]
• He grins at Blanche. She tries unsuccessfully to smile back.
• She (Stella) jumps up and kisses him which he accepts with a lordly composure
• STELLA: Im going to try to keep Blanche out till the party breaks because I don’t know how she would take it. So we’ll go to one of the little places in the Quarter afterwards and you’d better give me some money.
• STELLA: [vaguely] Oh it (Belle Reve) had to be - sacrificed or something. [There is a pause while Stanley considers].
• STANLEY: Yeah. I get the idea. Now lets skip back a little to where you said the country place was disposed of.
• STANLEY: Let me enlighten you on a point or two, baby.
• 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.
• [he stalks into the bedroom, and she follows him]
• STANLEY: Look at these feathers and furs that she come here to preen herself in! What’s this here? A solid-gold dress I believe!...Where are your fox-pieces Stella? Bushy snow-white ones, no less?
• [He hurls the furs on the daybed. Then he jerks open a small drawer in the trunk and pulls up a fistful of costume jewellery]
• STANLEY:  And diamonds! A crown for an empress! STELLA: A rhimestone tiara she wore to a costume ball STANLEY: What’s rhinestone? STELLA: Next door to glass.
• 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
• STANLEY: since when do you give me orders?
• STANLEY “I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, some of them give themselves credit for more than they’ve got”
• BLANCHE: “You’re simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side I should think. To interest you a woman would have to- [she pauses with an indefinite gesture] STANLEY: [slowly] Lay… her cards on the table
• STANLEY: He was looking through them drapes. [He jumps up and jerks roughly at the curtains]
• he subsides and is limp in their grasp. They speak quietly and lovingly to him and he leans his face on one of their shoulders.
• MITCH: You just blew your top, Stan
• Stanley’s gaudy pyjamas lie across the threshold of the bathroom
• Stanley’s gaudy pyjamas lie across the threshold of the bathroom
• STELLA: He smashed all the light-bulbs with the heel of my slipper [she laughs]
• Mitch is a buddy of mine, we were in the same outfit together. Two forty first engineers
• Tiger, tiger- Drop the bottle top, drop it. We’ve had this date with eachother from the beginning
• He kneels beside her and finds the opening of her blouse