The original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on December 3, 1947 at ran for 855 performances. This production also opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on April 12, 1992 and ran for 137 performances. Download Audio Books. DVD A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Two-Disc Special Edition / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Deluxe Edition / Sweet Bird of Youth / The Night of the Iguana / Baby Doll / The Roman Spring of Mrs. The A Streetcar Named Desire quotes below are all either spoken by Stanley Kowalski or refer to Stanley Kowalski. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ).
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Tennessee Williams’s sensuous, atmospheric plays transformed the American stage with their passion, exoticism and vibrant characters who rage against their personal demons and the modern world. In A Streetcar Named Desire fading southern belle Blanche Dubois finds her romantic illusions brutally shattered; The Glass Menagerie portrays an introverted girl trapped in a fanta...more
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Jul 24, 2011Trevor rated it it was ok
I’ve never read this play before today and I’ve still never seen the film – I’m going to assume that makes me the last person in the world to have now read this play and so will not worry that this review will have lots of spoilers. I’ve heard of this play before, of course – I even thought I knew what happened in it from a million or so references I’ve heard about it over the years. I can’t say I really enjoyed it. Parts of it were so heavy-handed that they made me cringe – the blind Mexican wo...more
A tragic play. The title is named after the Streetcar Desire, which transports the protagonist Blanche DuBois past Cemeteries to Elysian Fields Avenue named after the beautiful Avenue des Champs-Élysées en France but which also signifies the Greek paradisaical afterlife Elysian Fields. Ironically, the grandeur of the paradise that awaits Blanche is largely revealed to be a false pleasing fiction once she arrives in disbelief to the cramped one bedroom, one kitchen apartment of her sister Stella...more
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th Century, a writer for the theatre in the same league as Beckett, Brecht, Ionesco, but completely different from them. Tennessee Williams was a master of drama filled with menace and the ever-present threat of sudden violence, of hot passions and driving ambitions, of the clash of egos and desires, of people on downward spirals who are still trying to hold onto their dignity and self-belief. This book contains three great plays among the extraordinary b...more
Dec 22, 2016Kaethe Douglas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Sweet Bird Of Youth; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams I used to think Williams was the best. Vivian Leigh in Streetcar is an amazing performance. Plus, it's always fun to see how old the actresses are playing women who are fading. I still think of his work fondly, although now it just seems melodramatic and overwrought. Or 'bigger than life and twice as unnatural'.Library copy
“Whoever you are, I’ve always relied on the kindness of strangers,” — Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
I had never read Tennessee Williams before, which I clearly now realise was a huge error on my part. I seem to shock people when I tell them that I haven’t seen the 1951 movie, I haven’t even seen a snippet. I know it’s Brando’s signature role, but I wish people would stop saying it’s such a big deal.
Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed Streetcar. I always find it fascinating to read texts w...more
I had never read Tennessee Williams before, which I clearly now realise was a huge error on my part. I seem to shock people when I tell them that I haven’t seen the 1951 movie, I haven’t even seen a snippet. I know it’s Brando’s signature role, but I wish people would stop saying it’s such a big deal.
Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed Streetcar. I always find it fascinating to read texts w...more
Jul 02, 2018John rated it liked it
So I enjoyed this book/play. It was the first time in a long time that I sat down and used my eyeballs. Thankfully vacation and pool time gave me a chance to finish this buddy read about 4 months late.
I enjoyed the dialog and the setting. I haven't read a play in forever but it was fun to get the off stage descriptions. I felt like I could see/hear/smell all the stuff that was going on. I never saw the movie so this was all new to me.
The one thing I was totally surprised at was the rape scene at...more
I enjoyed the dialog and the setting. I haven't read a play in forever but it was fun to get the off stage descriptions. I felt like I could see/hear/smell all the stuff that was going on. I never saw the movie so this was all new to me.
The one thing I was totally surprised at was the rape scene at...more
May 04, 2007Stephanie rated it it was amazing
I first fell in love with A Streetcar Named Desire when I studied it at an english literature evening class in 2005. I had actually owned the book for a while; in a moment of sheer rebellion when I was hunting through my scatterbrained drama teacher's office for a book of monologues I came across an old battered version of Streetcar and pocketed it, thinking it looked 'interesting'. It was only when I studied it, I realised I had actually stolen a little gem that afternoon. Definately my most fa...more
I love Tennessee Williams plays. I first discovered him whilst studying at university and although I never read a full play I enjoyed his work and his insight into humanity. I found this whilst unpacking my books and decided to read it. Out of the three my favourite was the glass menagerie...I think everyone has a laura in them....where they feel down on themselves to have their hopes raised only for them to be taken away again. I'm looking forward to rereading cat on a hot tin roof and maybe tr...more
Nov 09, 2012Andrea rated it it was amazing
Plays are meant to be brought to life in a theatre and reading them is usually a second rate experience. But not these plays. TR could have written them as novels; he chose the language of the stage to reveal everything he knew about the fragile little birds of this world. Pure poignancy.
Aug 09, 2011Vrinda Pendred rated it it was amazing
These were just painfully beautiful. My favourite of them all was 'Sweet Bird of Youth' - some of the lines in there just cut me, they were so intense. I recommend these to absolutely everybody.
Mar 15, 2013Khenan Bragador rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
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Some really great plays. My favourite was probably Sweet Bird of Youth.
Set in the once working-class French Quarter of New Orleans, Williams tells the story of Blanche DuBois, an alcoholic relic of the waning genteel South, and her brother-in-law, the sensuous working-class brute Stanley Kowalski. Their mutual attraction and repulsion drive the conflict in this sexually frank, lyrical melodrama about the boundaries between illusion and reality and the changing South.
Blanche Dubois is a neurotic young woman in her late 20s. A widow, her husband died under mysterious...more
Blanche Dubois is a neurotic young woman in her late 20s. A widow, her husband died under mysterious...more
I love the way Tennessee Williams is capturing the concept of memory affecting these characters dreams, their reality and their present lives. It is a though he is wanting his audience to picture how the world for these characters along with their ambitions and wishes are nothing more than a tantalising dream. Memory is a precious thing for humans, but sometimes it is the cause of misery and deception for others. I see memory as a delicate object that makes us humans think of our past selves, u...more
I felt a bit odd about never having read this play or seen the film since they are both highly regarded. Although I did not enjoy either experience, I am glad that I read the play and watched the Brando film. i had no idea that so many stereotypes of American culture appear in the play, or perhaps were created by the play: the attractive and sexual man in his wife-beater t-shirt and the flakey southern belle who drinks too much and is a little mad. Like Blanche, I like magic and escapism, so the...more
Whenever I hear the title of this movie I automatically hear Marlon Brandi calling Stella, Stella, Stella. The staircase excellent. I decided that nothing HE had written or would write would be some of the best literature written. The movie embellished the characteristics of the different styles of the time gathering the Best Actress for Vivian Leith. Kim Hunter, of Planet of the Apes, received Best Supporting Actress. The book was excellent as was the movie. However, this was the best TW novel...more
Aug 09, 2018Danielle rated it it was amazing
I'd never read Williams or seen any movie versions of his plays but holy socks knocked off, what a trip. He is deserving of his greatest American playwright title. I swear I could have saved half the lines as favorite quotes. Each of these is full of suffering, manipulation, passion, violence, turmoil. I loved that every character is seriously flawed or in some way unlikable and that the endings aren't uplifting. What a master at evoking emotion. Yowza. I need a walk and a rom-com.
Plays are not meant to be read. These words are instructions, an outline for the actors and crew members. Without the human element there is always something’s missing from a script and I feel very detached in its reading. But, it was very good, and I can imagine it was more than very good to watch.
Classic!
Stella, Stella, Stella – a classic and great entertainment set in a bygone time and place.
Aug 02, 2017Just Hind rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I watched the movie a few years ago, and I know how confusing it can be watching the play listening to that heavy NewYork accent, so many things can go over your head. For that, to make it easier for myself I heard it as an audiobook, and read it at the same time. But, the audiobook was so terrible, I don't know why I got it... it was so terrible! That kind of ruined it for me, or else I would've easily given this 5 stars. I knew that I would like the play anyway, and I like it a lot. It was fun...more
Sep 23, 2007MacK rated it really liked it
What makes this worthy of four stars is the inclusion of two of Williams' 'great' works, and one of his lesser known ones. Each of these is intriguing in it's own way, though hardly the kind of work that will endure the test of time.
Sweet Bird of Youth is intriguing, particularly when you realize that Paul Newman was the first to play the lead. Picturing Newman throughout the piece makes it twice as readable, dreaming of what it might have been like to see a master plying his craft with such fin...more
Sweet Bird of Youth is intriguing, particularly when you realize that Paul Newman was the first to play the lead. Picturing Newman throughout the piece makes it twice as readable, dreaming of what it might have been like to see a master plying his craft with such fin...more
Sep 17, 2014Dewey rated it it was amazing
The America of Tennessee Williams is its dark underbelly, one with haunting background music that witnesses the demise of the epoch of the “southern belle” that birthed Zelda Fitzgerald, among others. All three plays, Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie are masterpieces not only as examples of Williams’ oeuvre but of universal playwriting. All three plays possess a daring that even masters like Samuel Beckett lack (though, to be sure, Beckett’s style did not lea...more
Feb 05, 2014Katie rated it really liked it
The Glass Menagerie is, quite possibly, one of the best works written describing the fruitlessness of a forced existence, the consequences of stifling both talent and passion and the importance of the legacy one generation can leave the next.
The relationship between Tom and Laura is the most important in the play with both of them the target of Amanda's (their mother) neuroses and high expectations. As a pair, they work - Tom in a practical sense supporting the family and filling the shoes of a...more
The relationship between Tom and Laura is the most important in the play with both of them the target of Amanda's (their mother) neuroses and high expectations. As a pair, they work - Tom in a practical sense supporting the family and filling the shoes of a...more
May 26, 2013Erika rated it really liked it
I don't read plays very often and as a result, it's not a format (genre?) I read easily. Like many high schoolers, I read the Glass Menagerie for English class, and other than seeing a few Williams' one-acts staged several years ago, that was my sole experience with his work until I read Streetcar. I read this solely over a series of train rides (treating the breaks in reading as my intermissions), and found that I quite enjoyed this play. I didn't realize until I was about a third of the way th...more
Dec 28, 2017R. A. rated it really liked it · review of another edition
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May 05, 2013وائل المنعم rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I read The Glass Menagerie and Sweet Bird of Youth two years ago, Liked the first one - which contains a very good scene near the end - and disliked the second.
My review on A Streetcar Named Desire is here
I don't know why i don't like Tennessee Williams so much although i appreciate his plays' ideas, respect his imagination and the intensity of most of his characters. Maybe it's the language which is the most weakest point of his plays, You may like it spoken in theatre or in a movie but not re...more
Jan 17, 2016Scott Cox rated it really liked itMy review on A Streetcar Named Desire is here
I don't know why i don't like Tennessee Williams so much although i appreciate his plays' ideas, respect his imagination and the intensity of most of his characters. Maybe it's the language which is the most weakest point of his plays, You may like it spoken in theatre or in a movie but not re...more
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“A Streetcar Named Desire” is an excellent introduction to the plays and literature of Tennessee Williams. The story takes place in a poor section of New Orleans and portrays a dysfunctional marriage between a brutish man, his pregnant wife, and her sister who arrives unannounced (and with a sordid background). The story symbolizes the demise of the old South (the lost sister’s antebellum plantation home), and the rise of a more ruthless southerner. This is a dark, troubling play that leaves the...more
Nov 21, 2011Ana Ruiz Castillo rated it it was amazing
The streetcar named desire is incredible. My favourite character will always be poor Blanche. Her horroor when she meets Stanley or the end, when both her sister and Stanley betray her and imprison her in a nut-house. I've also read the glass menagerie by Tennessee and was thrilled. Many dare say that The street car named desire is better than the glass menagerie but I think they are equal in literary quality. Perhaps the author themmes however, are too similar in all of his plays which make the...more
Four stars for 'Sweet Bird of Youth' and 'The Glass Menagerie' but I would give 3 to 'Streetcar'. I was disappointed with the highlight play - maybe because of all the hype. I was definitely excited when I got to the classic 'Stella!' scene. Tennessee Williams is a little too dark and tragic for me, but I can see why he was a celebrated and noted playwright. You could feel the settings and ambiences he created.
Jan 16, 2016Terence Manleigh rated it it was amazing Shelves: southern, new-orleans, american, 1940s, drama, play, pulitzer-prize, theater, theatre
Williams will be forever remembered for this masterwork, if for nothing else. It's such a wonderful play, disguised as a gritty work of realism but alive on so many metaphoric levels. It's the Human Condition, and we're all a bit like Mitch and Stella, trying to navigate the constant pull of those two fascinating extremes....just remember, 'Don't hang back with the brutes!' And how lucky we are to have virtually the original production preserved on celluloid....or DVD, I should say.
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Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to 'Tennessee,' the state of his father's birth. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...more
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More quotes…Stella’s husband, is full of raw strength, ferocity, violent masculinity, and animal magnetism. He wears lurid colors and parades his physicality, stripping off sweaty shirts and smashing objects throughout the play. His extreme virility is a direct contrast to Blanche’s homosexual husband who committed suicide. Stanley loves Stella––she is the soft, feminine foil to his violent ways. Their connection is indeed, as Blanche says derisively, “sub-human”: their physical relationship creates a deep bond between them. However, Stanley is drawn to Blanche, and in the play’s climax, he rapes her while Stella is in the hospital having the baby.
Stanley Kowalski Quotes in A Streetcar Named Desire
The A Streetcar Named Desire quotes below are all either spoken by Stanley Kowalski or refer to Stanley Kowalski. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:).Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the New Directions edition of A Streetcar Named Desire published in 2004.
Sit there and stare at me, thinking I let the place go? I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your–Polack!
Related Characters:Blanche DuBois (speaker), Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski
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Page Number and Citation:22
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I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they’ve got.
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Oh, I guess he’s just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now that we’ve lost Belle Reve.
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There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark–that sort of make everything else seem–unimportant.
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I told you already I don’t want none of his liquor and I mean it. You ought to lay off his liquor. He says you’ve been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat!
Related Characters:Harold Mitchell (Mitch) (speaker), Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski
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Page Number and Citation:143
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Tiger–tiger! Drop the bottle-top! Drop it! We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!
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You left nothing here but spilt talcum and old empty perfume bottles–unless it’s the paper lantern you want to take with you. You want the lantern?
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Stanley Kowalski Character Timeline in A Streetcar Named Desire
The timeline below shows where the character Stanley Kowalski appears in A Streetcar Named Desire. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
...and the river in New Orleans. The neighborhood is poor but has a “raffish charm.” Stanley and Stella Kowalski live in the downstairs flat, and Steve and Eunice live upstairs. The...(full context)
Eunice and a Negro Woman are sitting on the front stoop when Stanley and Mitch come around the corner. Stanley bellows for Stella, and when she comes out...(full context)
Blanche worries that Stanley will not like her and that she will have no privacy from him in the...(full context)
...plans for poker the following evening. Blanche nervously flutters around the apartment as they speak. Stanley enters, exuding raw, animalistic, sexual energy, and he sizes Blanche up at a glance. Stanley...(full context)
Stanley pulls off his sweaty shirt in front of Blanche, asking her about being an English...(full context)
...day, at six o’clock in the evening. Blanche is taking a bath offstage. Stella tells Stanley that she and Blanche are going out to the French Quarter for the evening since...(full context)
Stanley turns the subject back to the loss of Belle Reve. Insistent on seeing papers from...(full context)
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Stanley thrusts open Blanche’s trunk and digs through her clothes, searching for the bill of sale....(full context)
...in a red satin robe and lightly closes the curtains to dress. When she asks Stanley to do up the buttons in the back of her dress, he gruffly brushes her...(full context)
Stanley breaks the banter by yelling bluntly, “Now let’s cut the re-bop!” Stella rushes in to...(full context)
Blanche hands Stanley all the papers from Belle Reve, and he realizes that that the estate was indeed...(full context)
...the men barely look up. When Stella suggests that they stop playing for the night, Stanley slaps a hand on her thigh, and Stella, offended, goes into to the bedroom with...(full context)
...in silhouette. Blanche says that Mitch seems “superior to the others,” and Stella says that Stanley is the only one likely to move up in the world.(full context)
Stanley yells at Blanche and Stella to be quiet. Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley...(full context)
...Stella, and she asks Mitch to hang a Chinese lantern over the naked electric bulb. Stanley, in the kitchen, seethes at Mitch’s absence from the game.(full context)
...bathroom, Blanche turns the radio back on, and she and Mitch clumsily begin to dance. Stanley leaps from the table and throws the radio out the window. Stella yells at him,...(full context)
The men force Stanley under the shower to sober him up, but as he continues to lash out at...(full context)
...Mitch appears and tells her not to worry, that this is just the nature of Stanley and Stella’s relationship. He offers her a cigarette, and she thanks him for his kindness.(full context)
...is relieved to find Stella safe, but horrified that she has spent the night with Stanley. Stella explains that Stanley gets into violent moods sometimes, but she likes him the way...(full context)
...says that she is broke, and Stella gives her five dollars of the ten that Stanley had given her that morning as an apology.(full context)
Stella says that Blanche saw Stanley at his worst, but Blanche replies that she saw him at his best. Blanche claims...(full context)
Blanche bursts into a rant against Stanley, calling him an ape-like, bestial creature. “There’s even something––sub-human” about him, she cries, telling Stella,...(full context)
Under the cover of a train’s noise, Stanley slips out and re-enters. Stella leaps into his arms, and Stanley grins at Blanche as...(full context)
A while later, Stanley comes in and says that Eunice is getting a drink at the Four Deuces, which...(full context)
Stanley and Blanche make tense conversation: she attempts to banter lightly, while he is more than...(full context)
Stanley asks if Blanche knows anyone named Shaw in Laurel. Blanche blanches, but tries not to...(full context)
...glass, insisting that she likes waiting on her sister. Blanche hysterically promises to leave before Stanley kicks her out. Stella tries to calm her as she pours the Coke, but accidentally...(full context)
...she sees him as her way to rest and to get out of Stella and Stanley’s apartment.(full context)
Stanley comes around the corner and bellows for Eunice, Steve, and Stella. Stella tells Blanche that...(full context)
When Mitch asks where Stanley and Stella are, Blanche explains that they are out with Eunice and Steve. Mitch suggests...(full context)
Blanche launches into a somewhat hysterical rant against Stanley, and also bemoans her impoverished state. Mitch interrupts to ask how old she is. Blanche...(full context)
It is an afternoon in mid-September. Stanley comes into the kitchen to find Stella decorating for Blanche’s birthday. Blanche is taking yet...(full context)
Stanley sits Stella down to tell her all the details he has heard about Blanche. Shaw,...(full context)
Stanley also reports that Blanche was not taking a leave of absence from school on account...(full context)
Stella is dazed. At first, she doesn’t believe Stanley, making the excuse that Blanche has always been “flighty.” She explains away some of Blanche’s...(full context)
Stanley says that he has bought a one-way bus ticket for Blanche to go back to...(full context)
Stanley, Stella, and Blanche are finishing the dismal birthday supper. There is an empty fourth place...(full context)
...phone to call Mitch, even though Stella tells her not to. Stella goes out to Stanley on the porch, and he holds her in his arms, telling her that things will...(full context)
Stella goes inside and begins lighting the candles on Blanche’s birthday cake. Blanche and Stanley join her. Blanche reproaches herself for calling Mitch. Stanley complains about the heat from Blanche’s...(full context)
The telephone rings, and Blanche expects that it is Mitch, but it is one of Stanley’s friends. When Stanley returns, he tells Blanche that he has a birthday present for her...(full context)
...to smile and laugh, but she crumples and rushes into the bathroom, gagging. Stella reproaches Stanley for treating Blanche so harshly, saying that Blanche is a soft creature who has been...(full context)
Stella demands to know why Stanley has been so cruel to Blanche. He says that Stella thought that he was common...(full context)
A sudden change comes over Stella, and she tells Stanley to take her to the hospital––she has gone into labor. Stanley instantly leaves with her,...(full context)
...turn off the fan. She offers him a drink. Mitch says that he doesn’t want Stanley’s liquor, but Blanche replies that she has her own. She wants to know what is...(full context)
...that she doesn’t know what Southern Comfort is. Mitch again refuses a drink, saying that Stanley says she has been drinking his liquor all summer.(full context)
Stanley enters the apartment, slams the door, and gives a low whistle when he sees Blanche....(full context)
Stanley asks Blanche why she is so dressed up. Blanche says that an admirer of hers,...(full context)
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Unable to find a bottle opener, Stanley pounds a beer bottle on the corner of the table and lets the foam pour...(full context)
...a cultivated gentleman, as opposed to the “swine” she has been casting her pearls to. Stanley’s good humor suddenly disappears at the word “swine.”(full context)
Blanche claims that Mitch had arrived that night with roses to beg her forgiveness. Stanley asks if Mitch came before or after the telegram, and Blanche is caught off guard....(full context)
Stanley mocks Blanche for dressing up in her glitzy attire, saying that he’s been on to...(full context)
...telegraph Shep, saying that she is “caught in a trap,” but she breaks off when Stanley emerges from the bedroom in the silk pyjamas.(full context)
Stanley grins at Blanche and replaces the phone on the hook. He steps between Blanche and...(full context)
Stanley continues to advance toward Blanche. She smashes a bottle on the table and waves the...(full context)
The bottle top falls. Blanche sinks to her knees. Stanley picks up her limp body and carries her to the bed. A hot trumpet and...(full context)
...where the atmosphere is raw and lurid again. Eunice comes downstairs and into the apartment. Stanley is bragging about his good poker luck, and Eunice calls the men callous pigs.(full context)
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Upon hearing Blanche’s voice, Mitch’s face and arms sag, and he lapses into a daydream. Stanley yells at him to snap out of it. The sound of Stanley’s voice startles Blanche....(full context)
...all stand tensely for a moment. Blanche tries to go back into the bedroom, but Stanley blocks her way. She rushes past him, claiming that she has forgotten something. Lurid reflections...(full context)
The Doctor sends the Matron in to grab Blanche. The Matron advances on one side, Stanley on the other. The Matron and Stanley’s voice echo around the room. Blanche retreats in...(full context)
Stanley says that the only thing Blanche could have forgotten is the paper lantern. He rips...(full context)
Stanley joins Stella on the porch. She starts to sob “with inhuman abandon,” and he holds...(full context)
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