Scene 7

• [Late afternoon in mid-September]

  Breaks unities, quickens pace
• 'Her Majesty'

  'Sister Blanche is no lily!'

  'Dame Blanche'
• 'Feeding us a pack of lies'

  'Cat's out of the bag'

  'Pulled the wool over your eyes'
• Patriarchy 'I got proof from the most reliable sources'
• Anaphora 'The same old lines, same old act, same old hooey!' -Stan
• 'Practically told by the mayor to get out of town!' -Stan
• Grotesque, childish stage directions

  [Little breathless cries and peals of laughter are heard as if a child were frolicking]
• 'Boy, oh, boy, I'd like to have been in that office when Dame Blanche was called on the carpet!'

  Excitement at her demise.
• Stella refers to Allan as a 'degenerate'
• 'Her future is mapped out for her'
• [The distant piano goes into a hectic breakdown]

  Foreshadows Blanche's decline due to her past
• [Three-quarters of an hour later]

  [Fading gradually into a still-golden dusk]

  Impending doom, quick pace, rising tension
• 'Solemn'

  'Beau'

  Poetic dialect in contrast to Stanley - outsider
• [Stella laughs feebly] contrast to breathlessly, foreshadows choosing Stanley
• [The music fades] - plastic theatre, dramatic breakdown
• 'Mr Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself to think of anything else!' -Stella
• [He hurls a plate]

  [He seizes her arm]
• 'A pair of queens? Remember what Huey Long said - every man is a king!'
• [Stanley chuckles] at Steve and Eunice upstairs - parallel relationship, Blanche is out of place
• 'I hope candles are going to glow in his life'

  'Like two blue candles lighted in a white cake'
• 'What I am is one hundred per cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth' -S
• 'Ticket! Back to Laurel! On the Greyhound! Tuesday!' -Stan

  [The Varsouviana music steals in softly]
• [Coughing, gagging sounds are heard]
• 'She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl.' -Stella
• 'People like you abused her and forced her to change' -Stella
• 'I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them coloured lights going!' -Stan
• 'Wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here?' -Stan
• Blanche singing a Spainish folk song for the dead - brink of madness

  'El pan de mais'