A Streetcar Named Desire Scene 9 Quotes – Flashcards
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*Blanche* She has her satin robe on
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Blanche's satin robe connotes her promiscuity
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The music is in her mind; She is drinking to escape it
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Blanche's madness is now apparent and her drug addiction to escapism is being shown; she has a fragile state of mind
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"Me. Mitch" The polka music stops
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Mitch represents hope and escape
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She looks at him fearfully after he stalks into the bedroom
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Stanley's influence is apparent over Mitch. He now mirrors Stanley
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He has had a few drinks
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Foiling Blanche, Mitch has also been drinking
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Do we have to have that fan on?
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This mirrors Stanley earlier in the play when he attacked the stereo that was playing
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The polka tune starts again
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Blanche's fragile state of mind is reoccuring
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It always stops after that
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After the shot is heard by Blanche she is relieved from her unstable mindset
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Are you boxed out of your mind
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Mitch doesn't understand how traumatic Blanche's experience has been
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He says you been lapping it up all summer like a wild cat
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Stanley has informed Mitch that Blanche is a heavy drinker - at this point Stanley has won over Mitch
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I won't descend to the level of such cheap accusations to answer them
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Blanche is still trying to continue her facade
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Mitch crosses to the switch. He turns the light on and stares at her. She cries out and covers her face. He turns the light off again.
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Mirrors initial light scene covering of the lantern. The light being turned on represents the truth and the ugly reality being shown to Blanche and Mitch - all Blanche's secrets are now out.
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Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub! and such a filthy tub it is.
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Incestuous nepotism - Mitch believes that Stanley cannot be wrong. This is satire, it could symbolise the flaws in society Motif of being clean Male relationships = corrupt
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The Tarantula Arms!
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Connotes Spiders - The black widow is a sexual cannibal and consumes the male after sex.
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Intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with
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Understanding of Blanche's reasons for promiscuity
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Played out
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Blanche could no longer perform her role - either she is letting her facade go or she is referring to her coming of age.
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a cleft in the rock of the world
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Mitch seemed like hope in a cold society where Blanche felt isolated and alone
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Stanley and Shaw have tied an old tin can to the tail of a kite
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Blanche was to fly but she cannot as she has been attached this 'can' that represents her dirtiness in the eyes of society. The can weighs her down.
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A blind Mexican women....at funerals
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The blind women mirrors Blanche's own blindness to the reality she lives in and tries to escape. The funeral foreshadows Blanche's downfall
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Dying old women
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Blanche will soon die
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But couldn't we get the coloured girl to do it? no of course
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The demise of the old south is reflecting in Blanche and her own self
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Mitch rises and follows her purposefully....He places his hand on her waist
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Objectifies Blanche - He now doesn't want to settle for her
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What I been missing all summer
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Mitch wants to have sex with Blanche
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You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother
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Motif of Blanche being clean recurring - her fears have been realised
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Fire! Fire! Fire!
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Blanche shouts fire because it will draw people's attention - Motif of light and burning desire
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Pale blue square.....The distant piano is slow and blue
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Stanley's patriarchal society is dominant
