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5 fanning herself with She wants to be exotic. Lazy - contrast to
a palm leaf Stanley who is working and whose money
she is living off
5 being such a liar! Admitting that she is a liar
5 on the wing Interestingly, Blanche presents herself as Animal
making flying visits predatorial - she acts this way with the imagery
swoop down ‘Young Man’
5 touching her throat Madness Three men that Blanche is interested in in
as if actually talking this scene - Shep Huntleigh, the Young
to Shep Man and Mitch
5 entertainments, Culture Old South society - what she no longer has
teas, cocktails, and Old Blatant lying and wishful thinking
luncheons South
5 voice shouts in Contrast with Stella who does not stand up
terrible wrath for herself
5 that blonde! Patriarchal - sleeping with women
5 ain’t pullin the wool S10 - Stanley!
over my eyes! ‘Not once did you pull any wool over this
boy’s eyes!’. Also the theme of deception -
not just Blanche, but within relationships
5 I wouldn’t mind if Innuendo?
you’d stay down at
the Four Deuces, but
you always going up
5 vice squad A vice squad is a police division whose
focus is stopping public-order crimes like
gambling, narcotics, prostitution, and
illegal sales of alcohol.
Idea that NO is sinful
5 shrieking Initial contrast to Stella but we see that
You hit me! I’m there are actually quite similar - both
gonna call the police! forgive their husbands
She’s getting a drink
(Stanley)
5 man’s angry roar, Mock parody of Stella and Stanley’s poker
shouts, and night scene. Could show how pervasive
overturned furniture domestic abuse is, but could also just serve
relative hush as comedic relief
5 brightly Parody - Blanche is not scared but finds it
Did he kill her? humorous
5 daemonic disorder Anger?
, 5 green and scarlet silk Like a peacock Costume
bowling shirt Animal
imagery
5 Blanche registers his Link between Blanche’s nerves and
entrance with Stanley’s behaviour
nervous gestures
5 Eun-uss Lower class
5 bruise on his Men Reversal of gender roles. Eunice and Steve Foil
forehead Gender serve as foils to Stella and Stanley Parallel
bit timidly roles
affected boldness
5 compiling a Class Blanche acts like a social anthropologist:
notebook of quaint like S4 - ‘one of those pictures I’ve seen in -
little words and anthropological studies!’
phrases I’ve picked
up here!
5 You won’t pick up Class Double negative undermines what Stanley
nothing here you is saying - shows he is of a lower class.
ain’t heard before Contrast in the diction between the two
5 up to five hundred Pinteresque exchange of words
mighty high number
5 jerks open the Link between Stanley’s actions and
bureau Blance’s pain.
Blanche winces Similar to Scene 2, foreshadowing the rape
slightly
5 Aries people are Innuendo
forceful and dynamic Insulting. Could show that Blanche is a
They love to bang poor judge of character (esp with regards
things around! to Stanley) because she doesn’t guess his
star sign correctly. Shows differences
between the two
5 Stanley was born just Christmas Eve - Blanche apparently saw
five minutes after Shep Huntleigh
Christmas Almost like a Jesus figure!
5 Capricorn - the Goat! Connotations of sexuality
5 Virgo is the Virgin Incompatibility with Stanley. Ironic
because she is far from being a ‘Virgin’.
Madonna-whore complex.
5 contemptuously Stanley is quite cruel
do you happen to
know somebody
named Shaw?
5 faint shock Headaches - Blanche’s increasing
touches the cologne neuroticism
dampened
handkerchief to her
temples
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