Stanley Confronts Blanche

Lies

Blanche Continues to Lie

Blanche: It won’t be the sort of thing you have in mind. This man is a gentleman and he respects me….. What he wants is my companionship. Having great wealth sometimes makes people lonely! A cultivated woman, a woman of intelligence and breeding, can enrich a man’s life – immeasurably! A I have those things to offer, and this doesn’t take them away. Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart – and I have all of those things – aren’t taken away, but grow! Increase with the years! How strange that I should be called a destitute woman! When I have all of these treasures locked in my heart. I think of myself as a very, very rich woman! But I have been foolish – casting my pearls before swine...Yes, swine! Swine! And I’m thinking not only of you but of your friend, Mr. Mitchell. He came to see me tonight. He dared to come here in his work-clothes! And to repeat slander to me, vicious stories that he had gotten from you! I gave him his walking papers

Blanche: Oh, That’s right. You left before my wire came.

Stanley: You got a wire?

Blanche: I received a telegram from an old admirer of mine.

The End of the Conflict

Questions

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This confrontation was a long time coming...afterwords there will be no conflict within the play.

Blanche: But then he came back. He returned with a box of roses to beg my forgiveness! He implored my forgiveness. But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty. And so I told him, I said to him, “Thank you,” but it was foolish of me to think that we could ever adapt ourselves to each other. Our ways of life are too different. Our attitudes and our backgrounds are incompatible. We have to be realistic about such things. So, farewell, my friend! And let there be no hard feelings

What happens after the scene ends...

How will this event effect Blanche whose nerves are already on edge...

They Fight

Stanley's Heard Enough

Stanley: You think I”ll interfere with you? Come to think of it – maybe you wouldn’t be bad to – interfere with...Oh! So you want some rough-house! All right, let’s have some rough-house...We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!

[he forces her to let the bottle-top fall…. Much action TBD – overall - it ends on the bed]

Stanley: As a matter of fact there wasn’t no wire at all...There isn’t no millionaire! And Mitch didn’t come back with roses ‘cause I know where he is...There isn’t a goddam thing but imagination...I’ve been on to you from the start! Not once did you pull any wool over this boy’s eyes! You come in here and sprinkle the place with powder and spray perfume and cover the light-bulb with a paper lantern, and lo and behold the place has turned into Egypt and you are the Queen of the Nile! Sitting on your throne and swilling down my liquor! I say – Ha! – Ha! Do you hear me? Ha – ha – ha

Stanley Confronts Blanche