Scene 6

• Scene 6:

  • Blanche and Mitch (on date, SDs)
  • Blanche and Mitch talking 
  • Blanche – in French 
  • Blanche and Mitch – getting intimate 
  • Blanche telling Mitch about Allan 
  • Blanche telling Mitch how Allan died
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch (on date, SDs)

  “[A neurasthenic personality]“
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch (on date, SDs)

  “[Mitch is stolid but depressed]“
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch (on date, SDs)

  “[Bearing upside down, a plaster statuette of Mae West]”
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch (on date, SDs)

  “[The sort of prize won at shooting-galleries and carnival games of chance]”
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch talking

  “I spoiled it for you” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch talking

  “Can I - uh kiss you - good night?” - Mitch
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch talking

  “It was the other little - familiarity - that I - felt obliged to - discourage.” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch talking

  “I guess you are used to girls that like to be lost. The kind that get lost immediately on the first date!” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch talking

  “Let’s leave the lights off. Shall we?“ - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche - in French

  “We are going to pretend that we sitting in a little artists‘ cafe on the Left Bank in Paris!” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche - in French

  “Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir? Vous no comprenez pas? Ah, que dommage!” = You don’t understand. Will you go to bed with me? Oh, what a shame! - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch - getting intimate

  “Samson! Go on, lift me.” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch - getting intimate

  ”[He fumblingly embraces her. He voice sounds gently reproving.]”
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch - getting intimate

  “Just give me a slap whenever I step out of bounds.” - Mitch
• Scene 6: Blanche and Mitch - getting intimate

  “I have - old-fashioned ideals!” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch about Allan

  “I loved someone, too, and the person I loved, I lost.” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch about Allan

  “He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl.” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch about Allan

  “But I was unlucky. Deluded.” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch about Allan

  “He was in the quicksands and clutching at me.” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch about Allan

  “By coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty - which wasn’t empty, but had two people in it …“ - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch how Allan died

  “We danced the ‘Varsouiana” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch how Allan died

  “Allan! Allan! The Grey boy…blown away“ - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch how Allan died

  “I know! I know! You disgust me” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch how Allan died

  “And then 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…” - Blanche
• Scene 6: Blanche telling Mitch how Allan died

  ”You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be - you and me, Blanche?” - Blanche