Scene 6

Question 1

BLANCHE

Answer 1

“MITCH [drawing her slowly into his arms]: You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be – you and me, Blanche?”

“He hates me … Of course, there is such a thing as hostility of - perhaps in some perverse kind of way he - No! To think of it makes me … [She makes a gesture of revulsion]

“I made the discovery - love … It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it stuck the world for me”

“Deluded. There was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn’t like a man’s”

“He was in the quicksand and clutching at me - but I wasn’t holding him out, I was slipping in with him!”

(Polka music sounds in a minor key
We danced the “Varsouviana” … A few moments later - a shot!
Polka music resumes in a major key)

“I know! I know! You disgust me … And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this -kitchen -candle”

Question 2

STANLEY

Question 3

STELLA

Question 4

MITCH

Answer 4

“MITCH is stolid but depressed.”

“MITCH [drawing her slowly into his arms]: You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be – you and me, Blanche?”

“MITCH: Can I – uh – kiss you – goodnight?
BLANCHE: Why do you always ask me if you may?
MITCH: I don’t know whether you want me to or not.
BLANCHE: Why should you be so doubtful?
MITCH: That night when we parked by the lake and I kissed you, you –” (Contrast that this scene is right after the young man / she aggressively imposes herself sexually on him but put a facade on for Mitch)

“BLANCHE: That won’t be necessary. You’re a natural gentleman, one of the very few that are left in the world”