The Truth About Blanche

Conclusion

Lie One Continued

Blanche made money in the "earliest profession".

Blanche +

Lie Two

Stanley: Honey, I told you I thoroughly checked on these stories! Now wait till I finished. The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn’t put on her act any more in Laurel! They got wised...up after two or three dates with her and then they quit, and she goes on to another, the same old line, same old act, same old hooey! But the town was too small for this to go on forever! And as time went by she became a town character. Regarded as not just different but downright loco – nuts! And for the last year or two she has been washed up like poison. That’s why she’s here this summer, visiting royalty, putting on all this act – because she’s practically told by the mayor to get out of town! Yes, did you know there was an army camp near Laurel and your sister’s was one of the places called “Out-of-Bounds

She’s not going back to teach school! In fact I am willing to bet you that she never had no idea of returning to Laurel! She didn’t resign temporarily from the high school because of her nerves! No, siree, Bob! She didn’t. They kicked her out of that high school before the spring term ended – and I hate to tell you the reason that step was taken! A seventeen-year-old boy – she’d gotten mixed up with! ...The boy’s dad learned about it and got in touch with the high school superintendent. Boy, oh boy, I’d like to have been in that office when Dame Blanche was called on the carpet! I’d like to have seen her trying to squirm out of that one! But they had her on the hook good and proper That time and she knew that the jig was all up! They told her she better move on to some fresh territory. Yep it was practick’ly a town ordinance passed against her

Young Boy =

Stanley Tells Mitch

Mitch and Blanche?

Stanley: I wouldn’t be expecting Mitch over tonight.

Stella: Why?

Stanley: Mitch is a buddy of mine. We were in the same outfit together – Two-forty-first Engineers. We work in the same plant and now on the same bowling team. You think I could face him if –

Stella: Stanley Kowalski, di you – did you repeat what that --?

Stanley: You’re goddam right I told him! I’d have that on my conscience the rest of my life if I knew all that stuff and let my best friend get caught

Conclusion

Stella: Is Mitch through with her?

Stanley: Wouldn’t you be if -- ?

Stella: I said, Is Mitch through with her?

Stella: Stanley, she thought Mitch was – going to – going to marry her. I was hoping so, too.

Stanley: Well, he’s not going to marry her. Maybe he was, but he’s not going to jump in a tank with a school of sharks – now! Blanche! Oh, Blanche! Can I please get in my bathroom?

The Truth is Out There

Stella's Reply

Stella: But when she was young, very young, she married a boy who wrote poetry…. He was extremely good-looking. I think Blanche didn’t just love him but worshipped the ground he walked on! Adored him and thought him almost too fine to be human! But then she found out –

Stanley: What?

Stella: This beautiful and talented young man was a degenerate. Didn’t your supply-man give you that information

Stanley relays the truth about Blanche.

How will it impact her relationships with: Stella, Mitch, etc.

Why she hid this information.

Why Stanley finds and exposes it.

How do things look for Blanche?

Why did she lie?

Consequences?

Lie Number One

Blanch DuBois

Stanley: Lie Number One: All this squeamishness she puts on! You should just know the line she’s been feeding to Mitch. He thought she had never been more than kissed by a fellow! But Sister Blanche is no lily! Ha-ha! Some lily she is...

Stanley: Our supply-man down at the plant has been going through Laurel for years and he knows all about her and everybody else in the town of Laurel knows all about her. She is as famous in Laurel as if she was the President of the United States, only she is not respected by any party! This supply-man stops at a hotel called the Flamingo...

Stanley: This is after the home-place had slipped through her lily-white fingers! She moved to the Flamingo! A second-class hotel which has the advantage of not interfering in the private social life of the personalities there! The Flamingo is used to all kinds of goings-on. But even the management of the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche! In fact, they was so impressed by Dame Blanche that they requested her to turn in her room-key – for permanently! This happened a couple of weeks before she showed here...

The Truth About Blanche