Streetcar Named Desire Comprehensive Quotes by Themes

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  • Streetcar
    • Desire
      • Sexual Passion
        • "coloured lights"
        • "keep my hands off children"
        • "There are things that happen between a man and a woman in teh dark - that sort of make everything else seem - unimportant"
        • "You make my mouth water"
        • "when the devil is in you"
      • Attraction
        • Energy
          • "Catch" "What" "Meat!"
        • Violence
          • "I was – sort of – thrilled by it"
        • Control
        • Dominance
          • "A richly feathered male birds among hens"
        • Hostility
          • "There is such thing as the hostility of -"
      • Brutality
        • ****
          • "Maybe you wouldn't be so bad to - interfere with"
          • "We've had this date with each other from the beginning"
        • "brutal desire"
      • Loyalty
        • "I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley"
        • "If I didn't know you was my wife's sister I'd get ideas about you!"
      • Promiscuity
        • "Yes, a big spider! That's where I brought my victims"
        • "Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?"
        • "Hotel Tarantula"
        • "intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with"
        • "Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?"
        • "epic fornications"
        • "morally unfit for her position"
      • Consequences
        • Destruction
          • "Streetcar named Desire...Cemetaries"
          • "that rattle-trap streetcar"
        • Primitivity
          • "sub-human"
          • "goat"
          • "animal joy"
          • "ape-like"
          • "gaudy seedbearer"
          • "Survivor of the Stone Age"
      • Streetcar
        • "It brought me here"
        • "Haven't you ever ridden on that streetcar?"
      • Homosexuality
        • "There was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness, and a tenderness which wasn't like a man's
        • "coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty - which wasn't empty, but had two people in it"
        • 'I saw! I know! You disgust me.'
    • Illusion vs Reality
      • Illusion
        • Romance
          • "A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion"
          • "my Rosenkavalier!"
        • Malfounded hope
          • "You need somebody. And I need somebody too. Coult it be - you and me, Blanche?"
          • "Sometimes - there's God - so quickly!"
        • Madness
          • "Is something wrong with me?"
          • "Now there - the shot! It always stops after that"
          • "What music?"
          • "The 'Varsouviana' is filtered into weird distortion, accompanied by the cries and noises of the jungle"
          • "Lurid, grotesque shadows and reflections on the wall surround Blanche"
        • Fantasy
          • "I shall die one day of eatin an unwashed grape out on the ocean"
          • "I don't want realism. I want magic"
          • "I can't stand a naked lightbulb any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action"
          • "natural gentleman"
        • Attraction
          • "Put on soft colours...the colours of butterfly wings, and glow"
        • Innocence
          • "Nobody, nobody was tender and trusting as she was"
      • Reality
        • Stanley
        • Mitch
        • Loss of innocence
          • "Nobody, nobody was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change"
      • Deceit
        • Lies
          • "I didn't lie in my heart"
          • "I misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth."
          • "pitch"
        • Gullibility
          • "I was fool enough to believe you was straight"
        • Suspicion
          • "Liquor goes fast in hot weather"
          • "that worn-out Mardi Gras outfit, rented for 50 cents from some rag-picker"
      • Death
        • Illusion
          • "at sea sewn up in a clean white sack"
          • "I shall die of eating an unwashed grape one day out on the ocean."
    • Class
      • Nationality
        • Immigrants
          • Pablo
            • "in English, greaseball"
          • Stanley
            • "in bed with your Polack"
            • "What I am is one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it so don't ever call me a Polack
            • "Pig-Polack-Disgusting-Vulgar-Greasy"
      • Conflict
        • Snobbery
          • "well - if you'll forgive me - he's common"
          • "ape-like"
          • "sub-human"
          • "Now that you've touched them I'll burn them!"
          • Infective influence of snobbery
            • "But people like you abused her, and forced her to change"
        • Incongruity
          • "incongruous to the setting"
      • Aristocracy
        • Literature
          • "my favourite poem by Mrs Browning"
          • "Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe"
          • "Only...Edgar Allan Poe could do justice to it"
        • Speech
          • Blanche's knowledge of French: "Vous ne comprennez pas?"
        • Belle Reve and the Old South
          • "I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it"
        • "...of a background obviously quite different from her husband's"
      • Working Class
        • Pride
          • "What I am is one hundred percent American, born and raised in the gretest country on earth and proud as hell of it so don't ever call me a Polack"
        • Rough
          • "Roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes"
          • "bowling"
          • Obscene jokes
          • Language
            • "goddam"
            • Grammatical slip-ups
              • "so he don't look too clumsy"
        • New World of the working class under Huey Long
          • Hopefulness of new era
            • "You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...To hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe ypi#re lucky"
        • Sense of power after heroism of WWII
          • "I'm the team captain ain't I? All right then, we're not gonna bowl at Riley's"
          • "Every man's a king and I'm the king around here so don't forget it!"
          • "I figured that 4 out of 5 would not come through but I would...and I did"
    • Gender Roles
      • Masculinity
        • Physicality
          • "of medium height...strongly, compactly built"
          • "heavily built"
        • Cameraderie
          • "I'd have that on my conscience the rest of my life if I knew all that stuff and let my best friend get caught"
        • Power
          • Cockiness
            • "I figured that 4 out of 5 would not come through but I would...and I did"
            • "prodigiously elated"
            • "You..you...you..Brag...brag...bull...bull"
          • Control/Dominance
        • Vulnerability
          • "humble"
          • "STELL-LAHHHHH!"
          • "he's really very, very ashamed of himself"
          • "My baby doll's left me"
        • Affability
          • "Aw, let the girls have their music"
          • Untitled
      • Feminity
        • Dependance
          • Man is the breadwinner
            • "Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle"
            • "Catch!"
          • Financial dependance
            • "make a living for myself"
          • Posessions belong to husband
          • On each other
            • "Help me, help me get dressed"
          • Sexual dependance
            • "luxurious" sobbing
            • "when hr comes home I cry on his lap like a baby"
        • Vulnerability
          • Loneliness
            • "I can't be alone! Because - as you musy have noticed - I'm - not very well"
            • "You needn't have been so cruel to someone as alone as she is"
        • Emotional indulgence
          • "luxurious" sobbing
        • Empowerment
          • "Your hands and fingers are disustingly greasy. Go and wash up and then help me clear the tablle"
        • Appearance
          • "as plump as a partridge"
        • Dominant females
          • "stand up"
          • Patrony
            • "blessed baby"
          • "I like to wait on you, Blanche. It makes it seem more like home"
    • Love
      • "blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow"

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