Core Ideas

I divided the quotes into different categories that I thought are core ideas in the text, in order to make some kind of sense out of them.IdeasGenderStanley "Have you ever heard of the Napoleonic code?"Blanche "You men with your big clumsy fingers."Stanley "I've never met a woman that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they've got."Stanley "Some men are took in by this Hollywood glamor stuff and some men are not."Mitch "Poker should not be played in a house with women."Eunice "you can't beat a woman and' then call €˜er back!"Stella "When men are drinking and playing poker anything can happen."Blanche "A man like that is someone to go out with – once – twice – three times when the devil is in you."Blanche "And men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand men lose interest quickly. Especially when the girl is over €” thirty. They think a girl over thirty ought to €” the vulgar term is €” "put out."” (91)Blanche "The one (law of nature) that says the lady must entertain the gentleman €”  or no dice!" (97)Mitch "A man with a heavy build has got to be careful of what he puts on him so he don't look too clumsy." (101)Stanley "Hughey Long €˜Every Man is a King'" (124)Blanche "A cultivated woman, a woman of intelligence and breeding, can enrich a man's life €” immeasureably!" (145)Eunice "I always did say that men are callous things with no feelings, but this does beat anything. Making pigs of yourselves." (153)SexBlanche "but the only way to live with such a man is to – go to bed with him!" (77)Stella "But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark — that sort of make everything else seem – unimportant." (78)PokerStella "When men are drinking and playing poker anything can happen." (71)Stanley "nothing belongs on a poker table but cards, chips and whiskey." (48)Mitch "Poker should not be played in a house with women." (63)LifeBlanche "And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths – not always." (25)Blanche "Death is expensive, Ms. Stella." (26)Blanche "There is so much – so much confusion in the world." (68)Stella "People have got to tolerate each other's habits, I guess." (73)Eunice "No matter what happens, you've got to keep on going." (154)Stanley "To hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you are lucky." (152)Blanche "But, honey, you know know as well as I do that a single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep afirm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!" (98)