Scene 3

• "You look fresh as a daisy" - Stella

  "One that's been picked a few days" - Blanche


  Establishes Blanche's anxiety around ageing, links her need to appear perfect and beautiful with her fear of her past and time slipping away from her
• "Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh" - Stage Direction


  Example of Stanley's non-consensual physical aggression, sets ground for his further aggression in the scene and throughout the play. Drunk - catalyses this behaviour. Everyone around him allows his actions to go unnoticed, enabling the abuse of women.
• "I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or vulgar action" - Blanche


  Parallel between the motif of Blanche's discomfort in the light and her sensitivity to Stanley's blunt brutishness. Shows Blanche's fragility, fears being visually exposed to the world directly linked to her fear of being emotionally exposed.
• "They come together now with low, animal moans" - Stage Direction


  Stanley's association with the animalistic stretches to his relationship with Stella. See their relationship as intuitive, inevitable and obsessive. Depicts the primitive nature of sex and desire.
• "There is so much confusion in the world... Thank you for being so kind! I need kindness now" - Blanche


  Blanche latches onto Mitch as a vessel of hope, a sense of comfort when she feels incredibly vulnerable. Reliance on others' kindness important to Blanche's character - shows how she latches onto small things to allow her to escape from reality. Mitch is established as different from Stanley and the other men.