STANLEY: Catch!
STELLA: What?
STANLEY: Meat!
[Be heaves the package at her. She cries out in protest but manages to catch it; then she laughs breathlessly. Her husband and his companion have already started back around the corner.]
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 1. Stanley is the 20th century version of the primitive caveman hunter gatherer, as depicted in this opening scene with his wife Stella. He is portrayed as the dominant one in the marriage. And she the submissive one who catches the meat he throws to her to cook for them. The way Stanley "heaves" the package of meat to Stella is symbolic of the sexual relationship between them.