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Streetcar 6 Flashcards

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a pair of utterances in a conversation that go together

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Adjacency pair eg. question and answer

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where a speaker sets up the main topic of conversation

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agenda setting

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turn-taking

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the process of taking turns in a conversation, where only one speak speaks at a time

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turn-taking, adjacency pairs, and agenda setting are what?

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discourse features

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‘It is about…’

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‘It is about two a.m/ the same night.’ - SD (when Mitch and Blanche return from their date

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the tone/atmosphere when Blanche and Mitch return from their date

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  • ‘utter exhaustion’ -B
  • ‘Mitch is stolid but depressed’
  • ‘stopping lifelessly’ - B
  • ‘Mitch laughs uneasily’
  • ‘[heavily]: I’m afraid you haven’t gotten much fun out of this evening, Blanche.’
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‘They have probably been out to the amusement…’

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‘They have probably been out to the amusement park on Lake Pontchartrain, for Mitch is bearing […] the sort of prize won at shooting-galleries and carnival games of chance.’ - SD

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‘[heavily]: I’m afraid you…’

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‘[heavily]: I’m afraid you haven’t gotten much fun out of this evening, Blanche.’ - Mitch
- explains the uncomfortable, dull tone (‘exhaustion’ ‘lifelessly’ ‘uneasily’)

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‘I spoiled it…’

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‘I spoiled it for /you/.’ - Blanche
- taking the responsibility, female role in courtship
- ‘the lady must entertain the gentleman’

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‘I simply couldn’t rise…’

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‘I simply couldn’t rise to the occasion. That was all.’ - Blanche
- ‘the occasion’ - not her normal environment, used to courting in elegant society

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‘Why did you…’

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‘Why did you try if you didn’t feel like it, Blanche?’ - Mitch
- actually cares

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‘The one that says…’

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‘[She was ‘obeying the law of nature’] that says the lady must entertain the gentleman’ - Blanche
- how it worked in her previous life

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‘No, honey, that’s…’

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‘No, honey, that’s the key to my trunk which I must soon be packing.’ - Blanche
- patronising: ‘No, honey, that’s the key to my trunk’
- exaggerated, theatrical revelation that she’s leaving (‘which I must soon be packing’)

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‘Eureka! Honey, you…’

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‘Eureka! Honey, you open the door while I take a last look at the sky. [She leans on the porch rail. He opens the door and stands awkwardly behind her.]’ - Blanche
- ‘Eureka!’ is very exaggerated and theatrical, she is trying to animate the conversation
- ‘She leans on the porch rail’ vs ‘stands awkwardly’ show how she appears elegant and relaxed whilst he is out of place (how used to dating they are, contrast to scene 1)

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‘Y’ get the door…’

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‘Y’ get the door open? Good boy!’ - Blanche
- infantilising again (‘No, honey, that’s…’)

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‘He shuffles…’

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‘He shuffles and coughs a little.’ - Mitch
- seems out of place and unsure where Blanche seems comfortable (‘leans against the porch rail’)

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‘Can I - uh…’
‘Why do you…’

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‘Can I - uh - kiss you - good-night?’ - Mitch
‘Why do you always ask me if you may? - Blanche
- gentlemanly but Blanche doesn’t appreciate it here
- Mitch tried to adjust his behaviour after ‘That night’ when she ‘objected’

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‘That night when we…’
‘Honey, it wasn’t the…’

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‘That night when we parked by the lake and I kissed you, you -‘ - Mitch
‘Honey, it wasn’t the kiss I objected to. I liked the kiss very much.’ - Blanche
- ‘the lake’ - Mitch’s version of romance (not Blanche’s)

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‘Honey, it wasn’t the kiss…’

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‘Honey, it wasn’t the kiss I objected to. I liked the kiss very much. It was the other little - familiarity - that I - felt obliged to - discourage… I didn’t resent it!’ - Blanche
- ‘familiarity’ - euphemism
- ideals of purity and seeming “proper”

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‘It was the other little…’

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‘It was the other little - familiarity - that I - felt obliged to - discourage… I didn’t resent it! Not a bit in the world! In fact, I was somewhat flattered that you - desired me!’ - Blanche
- balancing purity and being “proper” with not seeming old and frigid

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‘a single girl, a girl alone…’

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‘a single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she’ll be lost!’ - Blanche
- again using ‘lost’ as a euphemism

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‘I guess you are used to girls…’

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‘I guess you are used to girls that like to be lost. The kind that get lost immediately, on the first date!’ - Blanche
- euphemism she was taught in her youth (sensitivity)

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‘I like you to be exactly the…’

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‘I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my - experience - I have never known anyone like you.’ - Mitch
- genuinely romantic but Blanche reacts badly (‘looks at him gravely; then she bursts into laughter’)

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‘[Blanche looks at him…’

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‘[Blanche looks at him gravely; then she bursts into laughter and then claps a hand to her mouth.]’ -SD
- Blanche is theatrical, unpredictable, and changeable
- Blanche performs, Mitch is the audience
- a poor reaction to Mitch’s honest reassurance that he likes Blanche ‘exactly the way [she] is’
- ‘Are you laughing at me?’

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‘You just - do…’

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‘You just - do what you want to.’ - Mitch
- gives up the control, tries to be respectful of what Blanche does or doesn’t want

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‘I want /you/ to…’

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‘I want /you/ to have a drink!’ - Blanche

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‘I’m lighting…’

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‘I’m lighting a candle.’ - Blanche
- ‘That’s good.’ - Mitch (doesn’t know how to be romantic)

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‘We are going to…’

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‘We are going to pretend that we are sitting in a little artists’ cafe on the Left Bank in Paris! [She lights a candle stub and puts it in a bottle] Je suis la Dame aux Cammellias! Vous etes - Armand! Understand French?’ - Blanche
- trying to create magic, theatrical (desperation for fantasy)
- self-sabotage - she knows Mitch doesn’t speak french
- ‘little artists’ cafe’ is her version of a date
- ‘Dame aux Camellias’ - French melodrama, a literature reference Mitch won’t understand

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‘Voulez-vous couchez…..’

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‘Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?’ - Blanche
- “do you want to sleep with me tonight?”

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agenda setting in scene 6

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Blanche leads the convo to topics Mitch can talk about, artificial

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‘This is a nice coat. What…’

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‘This is a nice coat. What kind of material is it?’ - Blanche
- agenda setting, leading the convo to one Mitch can relate to
- she asks the question then gives minimal replies (taking on the role expected of her): ‘Oh. Alpaca.’

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‘And it don’t look too neat…’

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‘And it don’t look to neat on me. A man with a heavy build has got to be careful of what he puts on him so he don’t look too clumsy.’ - Mitch
- insecurities, but also opening up

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‘You are not the delicate…’

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‘You are not the delicate type. You have a massive bone-structure and a very imposing physique.’ - Blanche
- complimenting and reassuring him

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‘It was the finest present…’

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‘[a gym membership] was the finest present I was ever given. I work out there with the weights…’ - Mitch
- Blanche’s compliment has triggered convo (success)

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‘Well, you’re a tall…’

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‘Well, you’re a tall man and you can carry a good deal of weight without looking awkward.’ - Blanche
- knows what to say, practiced

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‘[He comes behind her and…’

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‘[He comes behind her and puts his hands on her waist and raises her lightly off the ground.]’

37
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‘You are light…’

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‘You are light as a feather.’ - Mitch
- B and M are two very different people

38
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‘He lowers her but…’

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‘He lowers her but keeps his hands on her waist.’

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‘[gaily]: I said unhand me…’

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‘[gaily]: I said unhand me, sir. [He fumblingly embraces her]’ - Blanche
- doesn’t know how to be around her or be the ‘gentleman’

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‘Now, Mitch. Just because…’

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‘Now, Mitch. Just because Stanley and Stella aren’t at home is no reason why you shouldn’t behave like a gentleman.’ - Blanche
-trying to push him into a role (‘natural gentleman’

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‘Just give me a…’

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‘Just give me a slap whenever I step out of bounds.’ - Mitch
- slightly unromantic or elegant

42
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‘You’re a natural…’

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‘You’re a natural gentleman, one of the very few that are left in the world.’ - Blanche
- exaggerated
- pushing him into a role

43
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‘I guess it is just that…’

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‘I guess it is just that I have - old-fashioned ideals! [She rolls her eyes, knowing he cannot see her face.’ - Blanche
- self-sabotage
- rolling them at herself? or mitch?
- exasperated with Mitch or her own claim to have ‘old-fashioned ideals’

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‘There is a considerable…’

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‘There is a considerable silence between them. Blanche sighs and Mitch coughs self-consciously.’ - SD
- knows he’s thinking about her
- emphasising her disappointment and him trying to ‘embrace’ and failing to be a ‘gentleman’
- Mitch opens the conversation where normally Blanche would

45
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‘We should all go…’

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‘We should all go out together some night.’ - Mitch
- more comfortable in groups
- referring to Steve, Eunice, Stella, Stanley

46
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‘Don’t you get…’
‘What do…’

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‘Don’t you get along with [Stanley]?’ - M
‘What do you think?’ - B
- when agenda goes against her she disrupts flow by answering a question with a question (breaks turn-taking)

47
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‘That sort of…’

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‘That sort of commonness isn’t necessary.’ - Blanche about Stanley and how he ‘stalks through the rooms in his underwear at night’

48
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‘A teacher’s salary is barely…’

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‘A teacher’s salary is barely sufficient for her living-expenses. I didn’t save a penny last year’ - Blanche

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‘He hates me. Or why would…’

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‘He hates me. Or why would he insult me? Of course there is such a thing as the hostility of - perhaps in some perverse kind of way he - No! To think of it makes me…’ - Blanche
- ‘gesture of revulsion’
- realised he may hate her because he is attracted to her - echoes Ferdinand towards the Duchess

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‘How old…’
‘[She makes a…’
‘Why do…’

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‘How old are you?’ - M
‘[She makes a nervous gesture.]’
‘Why do you want to know?’ - B
- again answering a question with a question when she doesn’t like the new agenda

51
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‘I told my mother how…’

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‘I told my mother how nice you were, and I liked you.’ - Mitch
- trying, just not naturally romantic

52
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quotes that show Blanche trying to secure Mitch’s favour

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‘I spoiled it for /you/’
‘I want you to be comfortable’

53
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quotes that show Blanche looks down on Mitch

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  • ‘honey’ eg. ‘No, honey, that’s the key to my trunk’
  • ‘understand French?’
  • ‘she rolls her eyes, knowing he cannot see her face’
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quotes that show Blanche associates romance with fantasy and surrealism

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‘We are going to pretend that we are sitting in a little artists’ cafe’

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quotes that show Blanche manipulates Mitch

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  • putting him in boxes: ‘You’re a natural gentleman’ and ‘no reason why you shouldn’t behave like a gentleman’
  • answering questions with questions:’What do you think?’
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quotes that show Mitch is insecure

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  • ‘I am ashamed of the way I perspire’
  • ‘A man with a heavy build has got to be careful of what he puts on him so he don’t look too clumsy’
  • ‘Can I - uh - kiss you’
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quotes that show Mitch lacks romance

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  • monosyllabic replies: ‘I’m lighting a candle’ - ‘That’s good’
  • the affectionate terms are one way: ‘honey’
  • ‘comes behind her and puts his hands on her waist’ - everything is done quickly and plainly
  • awkward movements: ‘fumblingly’
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59
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what does Mitch living with his mother do to his character?

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  • infantilises him, relates him to Blanche’s first husband and the young man
  • also associates him with femininity (women lived with their fathers/brothers until they were married) links to his movement into the female sphere on the poker night
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‘I think you have a…’

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‘I think you have a great capacity for devotion.’ - Blanche to Mitch
- connotations of religion
- Blanche to her first husband
- suggests one-sided love: Mitch could become devoted to her but she wouldn’t reciprocate

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‘I loved someone…’

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‘I loved someone, too, and the person I loved I lost.’ - Blanche
- deliberately introducing the topic?

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‘When I was sixteen, I made…’

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‘When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me.’ - Blanche (monologue)
- ‘blinding light’ - moth, the paper cover for the bulb

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‘There was something different about the…’

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‘There was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn’t like a man’s, although he wasn’t the least bit effeminate-looking - still - that thing was there…’ - Blanche (monologue)
- homosexuality
- Mitch also had a ‘sensitive look’ - her type?

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‘all I knew was I’d failed him in…’

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‘all I knew was I’d failed him in some mysterious way and wasn’t able to give the help he needed but couldn’t speak of!’ - Blanche (monologue)

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‘He was in the quicksands and…’

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‘He was in the quicksands and clutching at me - but I wasn’t holding him out, I was slipping in with him!’ - Blanche (monologue)

66
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‘By coming suddenly into a…’

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‘By coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty - which wasn’t empty, but had two people in it…’ - Blanche (monologue
- very theatrical

67
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‘The headlight of the…’

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‘The headlight of the locomotive glares into the room as it thunders past.’ - SD
- ‘the blinding light’ or a search light in the darkness of the flat

68
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‘Polka music…’

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‘Polka music sounds, in a minor key faint with distance.’ - SD
- the music reflects the tension
- ‘polka’ is associated with her young husband (the end of scene 1 when Stanley asks)
- reflects her reliving it

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‘We danced the ‘Varsouviana’…’

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‘We danced the ‘Varsouviana’! Suddenly in the middle of the dance the boy I had married broke away from me and ran out of the casino. A few moments later - a shot!’ - Blanche
- very poetic and theatrical, building up the tension
- ‘The polka stops abruptly.’

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‘The polka stops…’

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‘The polka stops abruptly. Blanche rises stiffly. Then the polka resumes in a major key.’ - SD
- after she has said ‘A few moment later - a shot’: between the reveal and elaboration

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‘all ran and gathered…’

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‘all ran and gathered about the terrible thing at the edge of the lake’ - Blanche
- reliving it in a way

72
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'’Dont go any closer! Come…’

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'’Don’t go any closer! Come back! You don’t want to see!’ See? See what!’ - Blanche
- either reliving it or being theatrical in answering the voices

73
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‘He’d stuck the…’

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‘He’d stuck the resolver into his mouth, and fired - so that the back of his head had been blown away!’ - Blanche
- performative, story telling

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‘[She sways and…’

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‘[She sways and covers her face.] ‘ - SD (blanche)
- genuine emotion?

75
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‘It was because - on the…’

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‘It was because - on the dance-floor - unable to stop myself - I’d suddenly said - ‘I know! I know! You disgust me…’’ - Blanche
- would she say this if the story was exaggerated or fake?

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‘And then the searchlight…’

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‘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…’ - Blanche
- poetic description, lost the light (moth)

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‘[drawing her slowly…’

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‘[drawing her slowly into his arms]: you need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be - you and me, Blanche?’ - Mitch
- this is what she wanted, she gets it when she is real with him (ironic)
- ending the scene on a hopeful note

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‘[She stares at him…’

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‘[She stares at him vacantly for a moment. Then with a soft cry huddles in his embrace.’ - SD
- needs comfort

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