TASK 2: Scene 1 Quotes (A Streetcar Named Desire) by Nisha Thakur Year 12 https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5 en-us 2021-09-12 23:05:00 UTC 2021-09-13 21:12:20 UTC hello@padlet.com 'Why the Grim Reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep! . . . Stella. Belle Reve was his headquarters!' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734290069 2021-09-12 23:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734290069 'She showed me a picture of your home-place, the plantation. A great big place with white columns.' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734290606 2021-09-12 23:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734290606 [He sizes women up with a glance, with sexual clarifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them."] 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734292709 2021-09-12 23:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734292709 "The long parade to the graveyard! Father, mother! Margaret, that dreadful way! So big with it, it couldn't be put in a coffin!" 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734293153 2021-09-12 23:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734293153 (Suddenly she notices something in a half-opened closet. She springs up and crosses to it, and removes a whiskey bottle. She pours a half tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down. She carefully replaces the bottle and washes out the tumbler at the sink). 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734297355 2021-09-12 23:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734297355 [faintly to herself]: I've got to keep hold of myself! 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734297861 2021-09-12 23:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734297861 '...beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences of bananas and coffee'. 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734298717 2021-09-12 23:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1734298717 'Liquor goes fast in hot weather'. [He holds the bottle to the light to observe its depletion.] 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737361378 2021-09-13 20:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737361378 'My clothes 're stickin' to me. Do you mind if I make myself comfortable?' [He starts to remove his shirt.] 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737362350 2021-09-13 20:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737362350 'He hit the old weather-bird for 300 bucks on a six-number-ticket'. 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737364285 2021-09-13 20:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737364285 'And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths--not always. Sometimes their breathing is hoarse, and sometimes it rattles, and sometimes they even cry out to you, "Don't let me go!" Even the old, sometimes, say, "Don't let me go." As if you were able to stop them! 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737368010 2021-09-13 20:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737368010 'Only poor Jessie--one hundred to pay for her coffin'. 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737369010 2021-09-13 20:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737369010 'Hey, are we playin' poker tomorrow?' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737371092 2021-09-13 20:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737371092 'You didn't dream, but I saw! Saw! Saw! And now you sit there telling me with your eyes that I let the place go! How in hell do you think all that sickness and dying was paid for? Death is expensive, Miss Stella!' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737372249 2021-09-13 20:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737372249 'Yes, accuse me! 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!' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737372996 2021-09-13 20:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737372996 'And I with my pitiful salary at the school'. 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737373750 2021-09-13 20:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737373750 'Which of them left us a fortune? Which of them left a cent of insurance even?' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737374211 2021-09-13 20:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737374211 'You're a fine one to sit there accusing me of it!' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737375227 2021-09-13 20:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737375227 'And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby...[She smiles to herself.]' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737376127 2021-09-13 20:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737376127 '[half to herself]: I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night...When he's away for a week I nearly go wild!' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737377373 2021-09-13 20:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737377373 'I am going to take just one little tiny nip more, sort of to put the stopper on, so to speak.... Then put the bottle away so I won't be tempted'. 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737379024 2021-09-13 21:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737379024 '[She drinks quickly] Oh, this buzzes right through me and feels so good!' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737380101 2021-09-13 21:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737380101 'Open your pretty mouth and talk while I look around for some liquor! I know you must have some liquor on the place! Where could it be, I wonder? Oh, I spy, I spy!' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737381127 2021-09-13 21:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737381127 '[She rushes to the closet and removes the bottle; she is shaking all over and panting for breath as she tries to laugh. The bottle nearly slips from her grasp.]' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737381656 2021-09-13 21:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737381656 'Now don't get worried, your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard, she's just all shaken up and hot and tired and dirty!' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737382656 2021-09-13 21:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737382656 'Tell Steve to get him a poor boy's sandwich 'cause nothing's left here'. 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737384707 2021-09-13 21:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737384707 '...a red-stained package from a butcher's'. 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737385605 2021-09-13 21:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737385605 '[He heaves the package at her. She cries out in protest but manages to catch it; then she laughes breathlessly. Her husband and his companion have already started back around the comer.]' 15nisthak https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737386346 2021-09-13 21:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/15nisthak/pt9di8llv05zsuc5/wish/1737386346