sexuality

• “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”
• “Two rooms can be seen, not too clearly defined”
• Stella: Yes. A different species. (of Stanley)
• Stella: when he’s away for a week I nearly go wild! Blanche: Gracious! Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby
• 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: 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 goes out on the porch. Blanche comes out in a red satin robe
• 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
• BLANCHE; …fathers and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications
• 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!
• STEVE:…lets the hen get away and starts pecking corn. And the old n- says, “Good Lord, I hopes I never gits that hongry”
• BLANCHE: I haven’t noticed the stamp of genius even on Stanley’s forehead STELLA: It isn’t on his forehead and it isn’t genius
• BLANCHE: like an orchard in spring
• BLANCHE: I’m an old-maid school-teacher
• BLANCHE: And in the spring its touching to watch them make their first discovery of love
• they come together with low, animal moans. He falls on his knees on the steps and presses his face to her belly , curving a little with maternity. Her eyes go blind with tenderness.
• 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]
• Have got to be seductive - put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings
• I want to kiss you- just once- softly and sweetly.
• There was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn’t like a man’s, although he wasn’t the least bit effeminate looking
• did you know there was an army camp near Laurel and your sister’s was one of the ones called Out of Bounds
• get the coloured lights going
• I pulled you right down off those columns and how you loved it
• Yes, a big spider. That’s where I brought my victims.
• the bottle cap pops off and a geyser of foam shoots up
• The door is thrown open and Stanley comes out in brilliant silk pyjamas
• She has a tragic radiance in her red satin robe following the sculptural lines of her body
• He kneels beside her and finds the opening of her blouse