PARA THREE

• topic sentence debrief


  scene 11. stanley like in scene 3 shows significant cruelty and steve mitch and pablo all show some gentle resistance mitch showing the most
• quote 1

  the windows are 'partially open on the poker players'

  the atmosphere is 'the same raw, lurid one of the disastrous poker night'
• brief analysis


  contrasts when stella says stan is going to 'quit having these poker parties'. p42. Foreshadowing toxic masc and cruelty returning
• quote 2

  mitch's arm supporting cards has sagged
• brief analysis


  verb sagged contrasting with supporting reveals M no longer cares about poker which symbolises toxic masc. lost interest in it as he feels for blanche
• quote 3


  'ill kill you! he lunges and strikes stan'
• brief analysis

  contrasts scene 9. now mitch is distancing himself from stan. dynamic verb strikes depicts his anger. mirrors stans behaviour and using it against him. M is a victim of toxic masc, was once 'superior'
• quote no4

  mitch collapses onto the table, sobbing
• brief analysis


  defeated. verbs. removal of masc
• quote no5


  his fingers find the opening of her blouse
• brief analysis


  dreadful and alarming attitude. that fulfilling stellas sexual desires is all stella needs
• quote 6

  this game is a seven card stud
• brief analysis


  connotations of poker and ongoing masc violence. no one is affectef everything goes on nothing changes its always present
• INTERPRETATIONS 


  TAPP says 'men are shown no as active agents of redemption for suffering but as its cause' stan is the cause he is an emblem of tm
• CONTEXT


  motif of the 'lurid atmosphere' Van Gogh painting presents the terrible desires of humanity and the strong colours