stella
stella its your sister blanche
your sister from before, with mom and dad
Blanche!
my God
it’s so good to hear from you
it’s been ages
yeah probably
at least since before the wedding
ive seen you since my wedding
no, darling
i meant my wedding
what
my wedding
to Stanley
to who
my husband
oh
i thought we were talking about my husband
no, I meant mine
oh
well mine died ten years ago
yes, I remember
so its sort of hard for me to talk about husbands right now
I’m sorry, darling
anyhow
i didn’t want to talk about husbands
can i come over
i need help
of course you can
you’re welcome here anytime
i need a place to stay for a while
is everything all right?
no
nothing’s all right
what is it?
is there anything i can do?
i’m thirty five
so i need to move in for a while
how long do you think that might be?
well
at least until im not thirty five anymore
thats for sure
and honestly its not important to me WHEN you redecorate
so dont feel like you have to be in a rush because of me
redecorate what
oh sweetheart
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i didn’t know that this was the one i’d been waiting for, but this is the one i’d been waiting for. 😀
Blanche DuBois sounds so much like my aunt that I am horrified and delighted.
For a moment, I thought this was going to be texts from Blanche Devereaux.
holy shit
YES PLEASE. In fact, texts from all the Golden Girls, please.
Like a Hey Ladies, but with the Golden Girls!!!
I read the entire thing thinking it WAS Blanche Devereaux, but Stanley was DOROTHY’S husband and they were way older than 35 and it was Estelle, not Stella. Seriously, when are we getting Texts From the Golden Girls?
Oh dear. I skipped coffee this morning, and it is only just now reading this comment that I realized these were NOT in fact texts from Blanche Devereaux.
Oh yea, it doesn’t help that Sophia was played by Estelle Getty, which is pretty damn close to “Stella”.
It says so much about us that we need texts from The Golden Girls. It says so much about me that I needed someone to say it out loud. Thank you.
this is making me want to re-read A Streetcar Named Desire.
NO I DEMAND MORE FROM BLANCHE. But yessss this is literally the one I was waiting for!
Oh Stella, everyone knows you’re basically the crypt keeper at 35!
Oh my god, could we stop talking about people who are 35? I’m trying to eat.
Yes.
Yes.
Yessssssssssss.
“I thought that life would be a Mardi Gras, an everlasting party–ha!”
If you want to go to Hell, you should take a trip
To the Sodom and Gomorra on the Mississip!
“I will not defame New Orleans”
“Can’t you hear me yell-a? You’re puttin’ me through hell-a!”
You’re a dame and I’m a fella…
stella
remember when I was beautiful?
I was so beautiful
and young
and beautiful
I remember
I’m sending you a pic
we grew up together
I know what you looked like
looked
in the past
before
when I was beautiful
jesus
stella
who is that terrible man you have working for you
what man
the one who goes around in those tight undershirts
and smokes and sweats
everywhere
and has no sense of propriety
that’s Stanley
stella darling
who is stanley
Blanche
Stanley Kowalski
my husband
oh
stella darling is he Polish
how dreadful
It says so much about us that we need texts from The Golden Girls. It says so much about me that I needed someone to say it out loud. Thank you.
Wow, Stella really is the only one in this play who isn’t awful, isn’t she? (And even she gets awful by the final scene. Sure, I would want Blanche dragged away out of my life too, but not like *that*.)
I went to see Streetcar with my sister in law, and she was HORRIFIED when I said that while I don’t condone violence, I kind of understand why Stanley was so frustrated with Blanche.
Stella = mature woman who knows her own desires, doing her best to hold her own with awful family members, and now dealing with the fallout of accidentally marrying a shitty guy.
She’s a pretty awesome character. In a play that pushes all the characters to their breaking point.
As someone who recently played Stella onstage, I’m more than happy to agree with you! Stella is a pretty gritty girl. She knows what she wants and just bulldozes ahead to get it. Stanley may be an abusive rapist, but she wants him, so she keeps him. I love her for her self-determination.
I did find it interesting, doing the play, that neither of the Dubois girls really has a grasp on reality. Neither of them wants to deal with the reality of their lives, but they deal with it in different ways. Blanche creates vivid fantasy worlds that are different from her own; Stella just refuses to acknowledge the real world. ie: Running away from home when the pressures of caring for ailing family members became too much, getting rid of her sister when her sister exposed the ugly reality of her husband. Note that Stella says, re: Blanche’s rape “I COULDN’T believe her and go on living with Stanley,” not, “I DON’T believe her.”
Wait, Blanche was only 35? I thought she was at least in her 40s! Good Lord, that makes the whole thing even more sad and absurd.