A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 Quotation Analysis: what is conveyed through the quotes “Tense, hunched… scarlet satin robe “Rapid, feverish polka… in her mind… drinking to escape it” “Mitch… work clothes, denim, unshaven” blue 1 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “Rushes… hiding the bottle… dabbing her face” “Looks fearfully… stalks” 2 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 Utterly uncavalier… Stopped the polka tune… caught in my head… goes relentless on” “Some things… actually mine!” 3 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “Polka starts up again’’ “That- music again… playing when Allan… distant revolver… Blanche seems relieved” 4 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “Lay off his liquor… lapping it up… like a wild-cat!” “Fantastic of him to say it and fantastic of you to repeat it” 5 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “Won’t descend to… cheap accusations” “Tears the paper lantern… frightened gasp” “Don’t want realism… misrepresent things… don’t tell the truth… tell what ought to be the truth” 6 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “Turns the light on… stares at her… cries out” . “Merchant… whistled at me… put him in his place”- 7 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “For revenge, he makes up stories about me” “Tarantula arms… brought my victims… had many intimacies with strangers”- 8 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “Woman is morally unfit… throws back her head… repeats the statement, gasps “Seemed to be gentle- a cleft in the rock of the world… I could hide in” 9 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “Mexican… gaudy tin flowers… funerals”- “Crumble and fade and- regretsrecriminations” 10 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 ’If you’d done this, it wouldn’t have cost me that!’ “Death- I used to sit here and she used to sit over there”- Death was as close as you are… opposite is desire” 11 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “Don’t think I want to marry you anymore” “Starts screaming fire”- 12 A Streetcar Named Desire- Quotes Analysis: Scene 9 “Not clean enough… bring in the house with my mother” “Distant piano… slow and blue” 13
