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Sex and Desire (Character (Scene 6 Blanche says (I liked the kiss very…
Sex and Desire
Character
bellowing, saying "baby", asserting power through volume pg. 2
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scene 3 page 39, Blanche can't stand "a rude remark or a vulgar action"
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scene 4 pg. 53 Stella says "But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant
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Scene 4 pg. 54 Blanche says " any part of a gentleman's in his nature! Not one particle, no! Oh, if he was just -- ordinary! Just plain -- but good and wholesome, but --no. There's something downright -- bestial -- about him!
Blanche sees a "bestial" nature of Stanley, but Stella does not see it
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Scene 5 pg. 57, Stella does not think Eunice should call the police after Steve hits her, rather agrees that getting a drink is more "practical"
Her reaction to the physical abuse is similar to her reaction to Stanley, she accepts it and moves on
Scene 5 pg. 60 "People don't see you -- men don't -- don't even admit your existence unless they are making love to you."
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Scene 6 Blanche tells Mitch "No, honey, that's the key to my trunk which I must soon be packing."
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Scene 6 Blanche says
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familiarity--that I--felt obliged to--discourage.... I didn't resent it! Not a bit in the world! In fact, I
was somewhat flattered that you--desired me! But, honey, you know as well as I do that a single
girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!
As a single lady, Blanche does not let herself easily show emotions, not even to Mitch who is polite and respectful
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Scene 6, unlike most men, Mitch is a "natural gentleman"
He tells Blanche to "Just give me a slap whenever I step out of bounds." Mitch however can control his desires
Scene 6, Blanche talks about how her first love experience, she was blinded
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blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world
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Scene 8, Stanley wants Blanche gone and believes she is driving a wedge between him and Stella and is negatively impacting their love for one another
" And wasn't
we happy together, wasn't it all okay till she showed here?"
Scene 10 Stanley says "Oh! So you want some rough-house! All right, let's have some rough-house!", while cornering her in the bathroom. Despite Blanche threatening to hit him, he takes it as a joke
Blanche says in Scene 9
Yes, I had many intimacies with strangers. After the death of Allan--intimacies with strangers
was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with.... I think it was panic, just panic, that drove me
from one to another, hunting for some protection--here and there, in the most--unlikely places--
even, at last, in a seventeen-year-old boy but--somebody wrote the superintendent about it--"This
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Scene 9 Mitch says "I don't think I want to marry you any more." Mitch no longer wants to marry Blanche, rather only wants to have sex with her
Scene 11 Blanche says "I don't want to pass in front of those men". Unlike in the beginning of the scene, she no longer wants to be seen in front of men
"I'll kill you!" (pg.122 Scene 11) Mitch is either angry hearing about Stanley hurting Stella or is angry about sending her away. Either way, Mitch is angry about her treatment and thus cares about her.
Tone
Throwing his "package", "th'ew at 'er" pg. 3
scene 2 page 44, "They stare at each other. Then they came together with low, animal moans."
Scene 4. pg 53. Blanche says "What you are talking about is brutal desire -- just -- Desire! -- the name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another...
Blanche has a very judgmental tone regarding Stella's reason for liking Stanley, she believes its pure desire and Stella is not seeing the negative side of Stanley
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Scene 5 pg. 57 "I wouldn't mind if you'd stay down at the Four Deuces, but you always going up." "Who ever seen me up?"
Scene 6 Blanche says "No, honey, that's the key to my trunk which I must soon be packing." She desires Mitch as he is different from the rest of the men
Scene 6, Blanche really likes Mitch, however does not let herself easily get "lost" in love
Scene 6, Blanche and Mitch have a very flirtatious tone with talking about Mitch's big physique and him going to the gym and working out, very masculine
"Oh, my goodness, me! It's awe-inspiring"
Scene 6, Mitch is very genuine and honest, even reveals to Blanche that he talked about her to his mother
Scene 7, Stanley has a very judgmental tone when describing Blanche's past. To him, she is a undesirable girl and he had to warn Mitch
Scene 8, Stanley wants Blanche gone
God, honey, it's gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way
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Symbols
Many sexual references symbolized by animals, "bears" for example
Scene 5 pg. 66, alcohol makes people show their desire
Having a night cap before sleeping, alcohol showing the desire between Mitch and Blanche
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I want you to have a drink! You have been so anxious and solemn all evening, and so have I; we
Scene six the Polka music is a symbol for their desires. As the music intensifies, so those the desire of the characters and their desire to be with one another as exemplified by Blanche and Mitch
"You need somebody. And I need somebody too. Could it be--you and me, Blanche?"
Scene 10 as the music intensifies, Stanley decides to corner Blanche in the bathroom. The blue piano is correlated with sexual desire and as the blue piano gets louder, Stanley can not control his desire
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jungle voices rise up. He takes a step toward her, biting his tongue which protrudes between his
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Things Left Uncertain
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In Scene 6, what was Blanche's ex like? Was he a gentleman like Mitch or was he more like Stanley?
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Blanche desires Mitch because he is a gentleman, but why does Stella desire Stanley?
Scene 7 and 8, is Mitch lying? Or is his source not reliable?
The way Blanche has been characterized in scenes 1 to 8 do not align with the type of person Stanley describes her as
Setting
Kowalski apartment
Despite the social class differences, Stella and Stanely have no problems getting along
Scene 8, begins very awkward as Blanche's undesirable past is being brought up
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still-golden dusk. A torch of sunlight blazes on the side of a big water-tank or oil-drum across the
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