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Scene 2 - Coggle Diagram
Scene 2
Summary
- Sisters prepare to go out for supper, as Stanley & his friends will be playing poker in the apartment
- Stanley is annoyed that Stella won't be home to serve him a hot meal
- Stanley is furious at the loss of Belle Reve
- He believes that under Louisiana law his wife's property is also his, and therefore he has been cheated
- Stanley opens Blanche's trunk & displays her clothes & jewellery, which he believes to be expensive & bought with the house sale money
- Stella is upset & runs out
- Blanche comes in after a bath. She flirts with Stanley but he refuses to compliment her
- Stanley demands to see the papers relating to the sale of Belle Reve
- Looking for them, he instead finds a sheaf of Blanche's love-letters from her dead husband
- When Blanche hands Stanley a strongbox of papers he seems a little ashamed & explains that any inheritance would be important because Stella is expecting a baby
- Stella comes in and the sisters embrace. As they set out, Stanley's friends arrive
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Frightening ambiguities
- Blanche is frightened by tamale vendor's cry 'Red hots! Red hots!'
- Reference to the Gospels 'The blind are - leading the blind'
- The menacing atmosphere created by this conflict between Blanche & Stanley will ensure the audience accept Blanche's despairing cry unquestionably
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Symbolic motifs
- Blanche's passion for taking long baths is recurring
- Irritating for other characters & increases tension significantly
- Represents Blanche's yearning to wash away the guilt for her husband's death & of her sexual encounters