How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Graduate.
Quote #1
BENJAMIN: Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.
Benjamin is being slowly lured into something that's making him very anxious. The way Mrs. Robinson slowly ropes him in suggests she has some experience in this. She's extremely sexual and totally nonchalant, almost amused, during the whole process.
Quote #2
BENJAMIN: For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson, here we are, you've got me into your house. You give me a drink. You put on music, now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.
MRS. ROBINSON: So?
BENJAMIN: Mrs. Robinson—you are trying to seduce me... Aren't you?
Benjamin's right, of course—she is trying to seduce him. The comedy comes from her continuing the pretense that she isn't even as she escalates the seduction and Ben gets increasingly anxious. She's perched on a high bar stool in a short dress and spreads her legs just enough to give Benjamin a view of her thighs. That's what unconsciously prompts him to say she's "opening up" her personal life to him.
Quote #3
MRS. ROBINSON: Benjamin. I want you to know that I'm available to you, and if you won't sleep with me this time...
BENJAMIN: Oh, my God.
MRS. ROBINSON: ...if you won't sleep with me this time I want you to know that you can call me up anytime you want and we'll make some kind of an arrangement.
Mrs. Robinson is surprisingly businesslike and matter-of-fact about a potentially explosive situation, while Benjamin is freaking out. She almost enjoys making him uncomfortable. Why do you think she's so businesslike about it? Is she drunk? Does she do this all the time?