Drunk – drunk – animal thing, you! [She rushes through to the poker table] All of you – please go home! If any of you have one spark of decency in you – .

– Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 3. Stella loses her temper at Stanley after he violently snatches the radio off the table, curses and throws it out the window. Stanley and his friends have been drinking in the lead up to his violent eruption. She calls him an animal.