Scene 6

• [The utter exhaustion which only a neurasthenic personality can know]
• [A plaster statuette of Mae West] - known for open sexuality
• 'The lady must gentleman - or no dice!' -B
• 'I've outstayed my welcome' -B
• Blanche looks for the Seven Sister 'but these girls are not out tonight'

  Symbol of hope and luck
• 'Can I - uh - kiss you - goodnight?' -M
• Blanche is powerless and an outsider- 'lord and lady of the house'
• 'I have - old fashioned ideals!' [She rolls her eyes]
• 'He stalks through the rooms in his underwear at night' -B
• 'All at once and much, much too completely'

  'It was like you turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow'
• 'A nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn't like a man's.' -B about Allan
• [The headlight of the locomotive glares into the room as it thunders past]

  Personification is a reminder of Stanley
• [Polka music sounds, in minor key faint in the distance] -talking about Allan
• 'He's stuck the revolver into his mouth, and fired' -B
• [He kisses her forehead and her eyes and finally her lips]

  Tender and sympathetic love- contrast to S+S
• 'Sometimes - there's God - so quickly!' -B