Scene Three Flashcards
Title of scene. Potential name for the play, perhaps Williams didn’t choose cause too masculine. Only scene with title
“The Poker Night”
Lighting of the poker game with suggest, deception in the game
an electric bulb with a vivid green glass shade
What the men are wearing suggests they are bold but also they make up everything
wear colored shirts
powerful as the primary colors
What’s on the table, Yonic imagery
Vivid slices of watermelon on the table
What Stanley does to the watermelon which suggests he expects people to pick up after him but also that he disregards women and has no respect
tosses some watermelon rinds to the floor
What Mitch says that shows his sensitivity and is a mamas boy, different from the rest
“I gotta sick mother”
Description of Mitch and Blanche first encounter, shows he not a womanizer like Stanley and kinda formal
with awkward courtesy
What Blanche says abt Mitch which suggest she sees men as a species (mirrors Stanley in that way) and that theirs a hierarchy between the men
“Superior to the others”
What does Blanche ask Mitch to put over the light that dims the light/truth and contrast to the polka game and is fragile and delicate
“Little coloured paper lantern”
Stanley hitting Stella, happens offstage to its unethical but normalized also that there’s no boundaries to Stanley behavior
the sound of a blow. Stella cries out
What Stanley calls Stella after she leaves him, shows he objectifies her, sees her fragility
“My baby dolls left me!”
Stanley yelling for Stella, hellish connotations, excessive
with heaven splitting violence “STELLL-AHHHHH”
The music that plays when Stella and Stanley reunite, has sexual connotations
The low-tone clarinet moans
Stellas face when she and Stanley reunite, shows she is blind to the abuse cause she is so in love with him
her eyes go blind with tenderness
What happens
Poker game, Blanche and Mitch meet, Stanley hits Stella
