streetcar named desire
... an animal, has an animal’s habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There’s even something-sub-human-something not quite to the stage of humanity yet. Yes, something-ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I’ve seen in-anthropological studies! Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is -Stanley Kowalski- survivor of the Stone Age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you-you here waiting for him. Maybe he’ll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you. That is, if kisses have been discovered yet. Night falls and the other apes gather. There in the front of the cave, all grunting like him, and swilling and gnawing and hulking. His poker night!-you call it-this party of apes. Somebody growls-some creature snatches at something-the fight is on! God! Maybe we are a long way from being made in god’s image, but Stella-my sister-there has been some progress since then! Such things as art-as poetry and music-such kinds of new light have come into the world since then! In some kinds of people some tenderer feelings have had some little beginning! That we have got too make grow! And cling to, and hold as our flag! In this dark march toward whatever it is we’re approaching….Don’t-don’t hang back with the brutes.” Blanche try’s to convince Stella to leaving Stanley for a better man whose social status equals hers. But Stella says she is in nothing she desires to get out of. Blanche can not get over the fact that Stella married such a common man. She stated it to him and his response to Stella was “when we first met, me and you, you thought I was common. How right you was, baby. I was common as dirt. You showed me the snapshot of the place with the columns. I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them colored lights going! And wasn’t we happy together, wasn’t it all okay till she showed here. (pg. 137)” For Blanches 27th birthday Stanley gives her a present she will never forget. Before she can open the present Stanley says “Ticket! Back to Laurel! On the Greyhound! Tuesday! (pg. 136)” The night when Stanley came back home from the hospital with Stel...