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A Streetcar Named Desire- Key Quotes - Coggle Diagram
A Streetcar Named Desire- Key Quotes
Sexual desire
"Where were you!In bed with your Polack"
"but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird"
"There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark-which sort of make everything else seem-unimportant"
"What you a talking about is just Desire- the name of that rattletrap streetcar"
Fantasy and Delusion
The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw color of children's spectrum.
"I can't stand a naked lightbulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."
"It's only a paper moon just as phony as it can be- but it wouldn't be make believe if you believed in me."
"I don't want realism! I want magic!"
Interior and Exterior Appearance
‘springs up’ and ‘tosses (a glass of whiskey) down’
"I don't want realism. I want magic!"
"Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the Arabian Nights?
"I cant stand a naked light bulb"
"[He tears the paper lantern off the light bulb. She utters a frightened gasp.
After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion.
Masculinity and Physicality
"animal joy"
"sub human"
"bestial"
"Stanley charges at her"
"low animal moans"
Femininity and Dependence
There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark–that sort of make everything else seem–unimportant.
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"