Scene 5 Summary Flashcards
(10 cards)
Blanche struggles to…
Differentiate reality and fantasy, as a defence mechanism against the realities of her life
A fight… It serves as…
Breaks out at the Hubbel’s apartment, serving as a reminder of Blanche’s reality; flashback to scene 3; indicates what marriage to Mitch may be like
Blanche confides in Stella…
About her promiscuity in Laurel and her desperation (pg 53)
Blanche provokes Stanley by…
Demonstrating her knowledge of star signs, which Stanley does not have (pg 51)
Stanley and Blanche’s star signs are symbolic of…
Stanley, Capricorn, the Goat, hunter, relentless and persistent; Blanche as Virgo, the Virgin, ironic, artistic and worried
When told about Blanche’s past, Stella…
Offers her a drink
The drink spilling on the white skirt is…
Pg 54; symbolic of her past spilling over into the present; how she hides her past with lies
Blanche is worried about…
Mitch losing interest in her (pg 55)
At the end of the scene…
Blanche kisses the young man without consent (pg 57)
The young man foreshadows…
Her rape by Stanley; her past affair with one of her students
