Desire Under The Elms Quotes

Ryanna Raines: And why did you choose "Desire Under the Elms?" Jordan De Carlo: It's ferocious. A full-throttle rage machine. Rage over land, over family, over sexual lust.

To go there with her and explain in greatest detail the goings-on, to suggest to her that perhaps the sickness she experiences, the nauseating turn, is her own internal structure cramped by the rise of a desire heretofore unknown. I would also suggest that the impulse to 'lose one's lunch,' to spill such rich and fine fare as the 3 or 4 peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches consumed under the elm by the canoe pond only an hour before, is not so much a mark of aversion as a pronouncement of attraction, the making room for greater possibility.