Mitch Flashcards
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‘The girl is dead now’
‘Sorrow makes for sincerity’
Respectful
‘Miss Dubois?’
Mitch after his date with Blanche
‘Stolid but depressed’
‘Beating upside down a plastic statuette of Mae West’
‘Laughs uneasily’
Blanche - ‘laughs grimly’
Both disheartened, end of date, what now
Some kind of connection to Blanche when talking about weight ?
‘Guess how much I weigh, Blanche’
‘What’s yours?’
Mitch flirting with Blanche?
‘Keeps his hands on her waist’
‘Fumblingly embraces her’
What kind of character is Mitch?
More sensitive that Stanley’s other friends
Kind and decent
Mitch fallen into trap truly believing Blanche loves him ???
“You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be – you and me, Blanche?’’
After Stanley tells Mitch about Blanche Stanley describes Mitch as … about marrying Blanche
‘Not going to jump into a tank with a school of sharks!’
What is Mitch to Blanche a symbol of?
How does the music motif support this?
Hope (at end of play)
“You’ve stopped that polka tune that I had caught in my head’’
“The polka tune stops“
Polka tune = symbol of spiralling and deteriorating state
Mitch stops it = symbol of hope for Blanche
Blanche excited to see Mitch because she still has hope
“Mitch!“
“So excited that her breath is audible’’
‘’dashes about“
“Rushes“
Blanche still has hope for romance with Mitch
“offers him her lips“
“Looks fearfully after him“ when he ‘ignores’ her
Structure of dialogue when Mitch and Blanche are speaking in apartment whilst Stella and Stanley are at hospital
Blanche has more lines
Mitch monosyllabic ‘huh’, ‘why’ , ‘what music?’
Blanche trying to grasp control of situation ?
Mitch tearing off the paper lantern
“He tears the paper lantern off the lightbulb”
Significance of Mitch being the one to reveal Blanche ??
Mitch looking at Blanche on the light
“He stares at her”
How is Mitch described by Blanche?
“A cleft in the rock of the world that I could hide in!”
