purity/virginity

• “her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth”.
• Blanche sits  in a chair very stiffly with her shoulders slightly hunched and her legs pressed close together
• 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: You see I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping! [she laughs nervously and looks at stella for reassurance]
• 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’s dress, a flowered print, is laid out on Stella’s bed
• STELLA: She’s soaking in a hot tub to quiet her nerves. She’s terribly upset.
• Stanley’s gaudy pyjamas lie across the threshold of the bathroom
• Have got to be seductive - put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings
• did you know there was an army camp near Laurel and your sister’s was one of the ones called Out of Bounds
• 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
• You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother
• she has decked herself out in a somewhat soiled and crumpled white evening satin gown
• It’s Della Robbia Blue
• Those cathedral bells are the only clean things in the Quarter… I’m ready to go