masculinity

• “Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red stained package from the butchers”
• Stella: [mildly] Don’t holler at me like that. Hi, mitch.
• “he heaves the package at her. She cries out in protest but manages to catch it; then she laughs breathlessly”
• 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]
• She (Stella) jumps up and kisses him which he accepts with a lordly composure
• 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: since when do you give me orders?
• 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
• [she sprays herself with her atomizer; then playfully sprays him with it. he seizes the atomizer and slams it down on the dresser.]
• BLANCHE; I laughed and treated it all as a joke, called him a little boy and laughed- and flirted. Yes- I was flirting with your husband Stella!
• [there is a picture of Van Gogh’s of a billiard picture at night. The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid, nocturnal brilliance, the raw colours of a childhood’s spectrum]
• [They are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct as the primary colours]
• MITCH: She says to go out, so I go, but I don’t enjoy it. All the while I keep wondering how she is. STANLEY: Aw, for God’s sake, go home then
• MITCH: You are all married, but I’ll be alone when she goes.
• STELLA: [sharply] That’s not fun, Stanley. [The men laugh]
• STANLEY: And when he goes home he’ll deposit them in the piggy bank his mother gave him for Christmas
• 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
• STELLA: In the first place, when men are drinking and playing poker anything can happen
• My Rosenkavalier! Bow to me first!
• Samson! Lift me.
• Mitch is a buddy of mine, we were in the same outfit together. Two forty first engineers
• What do you think you are? A pair of queens? Remember what Huey Long said-”Every Man is a King”
• This game is a seven card stud