Stella and Stanley at breakfast

[Stella has gotten breakfast ready and is waiting for Stanley. Stanley walks in and sits]

Stanley: good morning baby
Stella: good morning [pauses] i hope Blanche is ok, she's not so used to this
Stanley: this? if she wants to stay under my roof she'll have to get used to whatever she's given, Stella
Stella: ok lets not start again. how'd you like your breakfast
Stanley: i like it very much [gets up and kisses her on the cheek, leaving all his used cutlery on the table] i better get moving to work

[Stella stays seated staring into open air, she thinks about her sister and frowns. Stella then washes up the dishes and goes into her room to lay]

Questions- unfisnished

Stella shows and states that she is thrilled by Stanely's violence '' i was - sort of - thrilled by it '' the pauses between her speech indicates that she is searching for a term to express her emotions and has concluded to one that shocks Blanche.

'' On our wedding night - soon as we came in here - he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing the light-bulbs with it '' this statement made my Stella shows that his violence is also a memory as well as present and the memory is a wonderful one because it was on her wedding night.