Scene 9

• Structural parallel of 'scarlet satin robe'
• [Rapid, feverish polka tune]

  [The music is inside her mind; she is drinking to escape it and the sense of disaster closing in on her]
• Parallel to Stanley - [She looks fearfully after him as he stalks into the bedroom]
• [A distant revolver shot is heard, Blanche seems relieved]

  'It always stops after that'
• 'You ought to lay off his liquor. He says you been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat!' -M
• [He tears the paper lantern off the lightbulb. She utters a frightened gasp]
• 'I don't want realism'
• 'The Tarantula Arms!'

  'That's where I bought my victims'
• [She throws her head back with convulsive, sobbing laughter]
• 'Lies, lies, inside and out, all lies' -M

  'I didn't lie in my heart' -B
• [Blind Mexican woman in a dark shawl]

  Foreshadows death, grip reaper figure
• [Fumbling to embrace her] 'What I been missing all summer'
• 'You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother' -M
• [Her throat is tightening with hysteria]
• 'Before I start screaming fire' -B patriarchy, rape normalised
• [Staggers back from the window and falls to her knees. The distant piano is slow and blue]