stella

• Stella: [mildly] Don’t holler at me like that. Hi, mitch.
• Stella: You never did give me a chance to say much, blanche. So I just got into the habit of being of quiet around you.
• Blanche: God love you for a liar! Daylight never exposed so total a ruin!
• Blanche: You hear me? I said stand up! [Stella complies reluctantly] You messy child, you, you’ve splilt something on that pretty white lace collar!
• Blanche: I want you to look at my figure [She turns around] You know I haven’t put on one ounce in ten years, Stella? I weigh what I weighed the summer you left belle reve.
• Stella: they're a mixed lot, Blanche. Blanche: heterogeneous– types?
• Blanche: I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone! Because– as you must have noticed– I’m not very well…
• Stella: Yes. A different species. (of Stanley)
• Stella: But of course there were things to adjust myself to later on.
• 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
• Blanche: I know that youre bound to reproach me– but before you do-take into consideration– you left ! I stayed and struggled!
• Blanche’s dress, a flowered print, is laid out on Stella’s bed
• 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: She’s soaking in a hot tub to quiet her nerves. She’s terribly upset.
• STELLA: [vaguely] Oh it (Belle Reve) had to be - sacrificed or something. [There is a pause while Stanley considers].
• STELLA: She wasn’t expecting to find us in such a small place. You see Id tried to gloss things over a little in my letters.
• 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: the Kowalskis and the DuBois have different notions STELLA: [angrily] Indeed they have, thank heavens
• BLANCHE: The poor thing was out there listening to us, and I have an idea she doesn’t understand you as well as I do
• 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!
• 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
• that almost narcotized tranquility that is in the faces of Eastern Idols
• STELLA: In the first place, when men are drinking and playing poker anything can happen
• Her look goes suddenly inward…a blind look and listening expression