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1
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.How did you get here Blanche?

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“they told [her] to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!” (1.16)

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Are you talking about cars or lust?!

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BLANCHE What you are talking about is brutal desire—just—Desire! The name of that rattle-trap street-car that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another…
STELLA Haven’t you ever ridden on that street-car?
BLANCHE It brought me here. (4.104-106)

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3
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My Saturday night

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“epic fornications”

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Where was death, and whats its opposite?

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Blanche: “Death […], death was as close as you are. […] The opposite is desire” (9.69-71).

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5
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Stanley’s got his package!

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bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher’s. (Scene One, Stage Directions)-

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6
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Shouting gets upsetting.

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STANLEY: [booming] Now let’s cut the re-bop!
BLANCHE: [pressing hands to her ears]
Ouuuuu! (2.115-6)-

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7
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Its basically Joseph and his technicolor coat

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Stanley, Steve, Mitch, and Pablo wear colored shirts,
they are men at the peak of their physical manhood,
powerful as the primary colors.
There are vivid slices of watermelon on the table, whiskey bottles and glasses. (Scene Three, Stage Directions)-

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8
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Stanley’s bellowing.

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STANLEY: [bellowing] Hey there! Stella, Baby! (1.1)

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9
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Stella, how would you describe Stanley?

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STELLA: Yes. A different species.
BLANCHE: In what way; what’s he like?
STELLA: Oh, you can’t describe someone you’re in love with! (1.146-8)

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10
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Stella gets bossy

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STELLA: …You come out with me while Blanche is getting dressed.
STANLEY: Since when do you give me orders? (2.70-1)

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11
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Why do you want Mitch Blanche?

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BLANCHE: I want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again! Yes – I want Mitch… very badly!

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12
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Blanche’s costume

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incongruous to the setting.
white suit with a fluffy bodice,
necklace and earrings of pearl,
white gloves and hat,

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13
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Basically the pantheon

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EUNICE: A great big place with white columns. (1.63)

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Stella: Should I have helped save belle reve? Nah, sex is good.

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BLANCHE: …I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your – Polack! (1.185)

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15
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Close quarters.

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… but contains a folding bed to be used by Blanche. The room beyond is a bedroom. (1.40)

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16
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Basically the equivalent of me putting my pyjamas on the second I get home.

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STANLEY: My clothes are stickin’ to me. Do you mind if I make myself comfortable? [He starts to remove his shirt.]
STANLEY: Be comfortable is my motto. (1.219-21)

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17
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Blanche, in the light?!

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Blanche moves back into the streak of light. She raises her arms and stretches, as she moves indolently back to the chair. (3.88)

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18
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mine vs megan’s dancing.

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Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures. Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear. (3.164)

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19
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actually true for megan

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‘No, one’s my limit’ (1.111)

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20
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whats the music/ wheres the music/ why the music?

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The rapid feverish polka tune, the “Varsouviana,” is heard. The music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape. (Stage Directions, Scene Nine)

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21
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When your parents come to pick you up from a party and you’re drunk.

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BLANCHE: [She rushes about frantically, hiding the bottle in a closet, crouching at the mirror and dabbing her face with cologne and powder.] (9.3)

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22
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the hangover.

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BLANCHE: And turn that over-light off! Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare! (1.75)

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23
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How much do you weight Blanche?

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BLANCHE: …You know I haven’t put on one ounce in ten years, Stella? I weigh what I weighed the summer you left Belle Reve. The summer Dad died and you left us… (1.123)

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24
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Blanche is vain.

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STELLA: And admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness! (2.22)

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25
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What’s all the make up for.

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BLANCHE: …After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion… (2.129)

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26
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Blanche being morbid about funerals.

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BLANCHE…And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths – not always. (1.185)

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27
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Blanche in Aladdin.

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BLANCHE Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the Arabian Nights!

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28
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What do you want Blanche?

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BLANCHEI don’t want realism. I want magic! I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! – Don’t turn the light on! (9.43)

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29
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Did you lie Blanche?.

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BLANCHE Never inside, I didn’t lie in my heart… (9.59)

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30
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Why did you send your sister to a mental institution Stella?

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STELLA I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley. (11.24)

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31
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the one about Daisies!

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STELLA You are as fresh as a daisy.

BLANCHE One that’s been picked a few days. (3.33-4)

32
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The one about the executioner

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BLANCHE The first time I laid eyes on [Stanley] I thought to myself, that man is my executioner! That man will destroy me. (6.102)

33
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.What does life after death consist of, Blanche?

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After the death of Allan — intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty hearty with. (9.55)

34
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Be malleable and good looking!

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BLANCHE: It isn’t enough to be soft. You’ve got to be soft and attractive. And I – I’m fading now! I don’t know how much longer I can turn the trick. (5.60)

35
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What have you got, Stanley?

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‘Meat!’

36
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when did we plan our date?

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“We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!”

37
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Me and my grades.

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BLANCHE: “I don’t tell the truth, but rather what ought to be truth,”

38
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A quote straight from our interrailing trip

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“I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers,”

39
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Blanche when Stanley gets out his super-macho pj’s

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‘I’m caught in a trap’

40
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what does New Orleans have in common with me?

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‘raffish charm’

41
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the sky in NO

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‘tender blue’, ‘turquoise’ sky

42
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coloured landmarks NO

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‘brown river’

‘dim white buildings’

43
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smells of NO

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‘faint redolence’s of bananas and coffee’

44
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hows racial tension in NO?

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‘relatively warm and easy intermingling of races’

45
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mentions of racial mixing

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‘negro’

music played by ‘brown fingers’

46
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negro woman’s getting frisky

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‘she says St Barnabus would send out his dog to lick her…and she’d feel an icy cold wave all up an’ down her’.

47
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Why are you here, Blanche?!

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‘leave of absence’

48
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What did Blanche used to be like, Stella?

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“You didn’t know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.” (8.50)

49
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Stanley, what is Blanche?

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Blanche is the ‘Queen of the Nile.’

50
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Stella, what does Blanche love?

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Blanche “love[s] to be waited on.”

51
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Stanley’s from Poland, so he’s a…

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‘Polack’

52
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What does Stanley have in spades?

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‘brute desire’

53
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you did WHAT WITH MY HUSBAND?!

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“I called him a little boy and laughed and flirted. Yes, I was flirting with your husband!” (2.155)

54
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so, Stanley annoys you because you can’t have sex with him?

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“What such a man has to offer is animal force […]. But the only way to live with such a man is to – go to bed with him! And that’s your job – not mine!” (4.90)

55
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The worst ‘who do you think you are’ insult ever

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“Pig—Polak—disgusting—vulgar—greasy!—them kind of words have been on your [Stella’s] … What do you two think you are? A pair of queens?” (8.14)

56
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things what you do in the dark

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“[…] there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of make everything else seem—unimportant.” (4.103)

57
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noise AND coloured lights?!?! sounds great Stanley

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STANLEY: it’s gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night … and get the colored lights going with nobody’s sister behind the curtains to hear us! (8.55)

58
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what is the centre of Stanley’s life?

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Since earliest manhood the center of [Stanley’s] life has been pleasure with women […] (1.205)

59
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Stanley’s drunk and unhappy

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“My baby doll’s left me!” he cries, and “breaks into sobs” (3.189)

60
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Stanley’s repentant

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“He was as good as a lamb when I came back, and he’s really very, very ashamed of himself.” (4.16)

61
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what might Stanley do?

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BLANCHE He acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits! […] Maybe he’ll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! (4.118)

62
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Stella, how do you feel about domestic abuse?

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STELLA: “I was—sort of—thrilled by it” (4.22).

63
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A male dominance symbol

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Stella […] embrace[s] him with both arms, fiercely, and full in the view of Blanche. He laughs and clasps her head to him. Over her head he grins through the curtains at Blanche. (4.126)

64
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Eunice, do you support Domestic Abuse?

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EUNICE: “Don’t ever believe it. Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you’ve got to keep on going” (11.25).

65
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yeah, just a minute Blanche!

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BLANCHE: “Don’t hang back with the brutes!” (4.118).

66
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Mitch: Me and you, you and me-e.

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MITCH: “You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be—you and me, Blanche?” (6.121).

67
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Blanche, do you actually want to marry Mitch?

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Stella asks her, “Do you want him?” and she replies,“I want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again! Yes—I want Mitch… very badly! Just think! If it happens! I can leave here and not be anyone’s problem…” (5.86-7)

68
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Megan after a few drinks

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NEGRO WOMAN: ‘cackling hysterically, swaying drunkenly’

69
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description of the Mexican woman

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‘a blind Mexican in a dark shawl’

She is selling ‘flowers for the dead’,

70
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Where is Blanche?

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Blanche is ‘past her prime’

71
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Mitch, have you ever seen Blanche in the light?

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“I don’t think I ever seen you in the light. […] What it means is I’ve never had a real good look at you.” (9.28-36)

72
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The equivalent of me blasting my corneas every morning

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“you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me” (6.120).

73
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When I turn the main light off in my room and replace it with my lamp

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“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…” (6.120).

74
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Paper Moon (dw you dont have to learn this)

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BLANCHE
(singing) Say, it’s only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea—But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me!
[…]
It’s a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be— But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me!
[…]
Without your love,
It’s a honky-tonk parade!
Without your love,
It’s a melody played in a Penny arcade…
[…]
It’s only a paper moon, Just as phony as it can be— But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me!
[…]
It’s a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be. (9.30-45)

75
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ways to describe Megan/Stanley

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‘goat’ ‘ape’ ‘subhuman’

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