tension

• He grins at Blanche. She tries unsuccessfully to smile back.
• [she sprays herself with her atomizer; then playfully sprays him with it. he seizes the atomizer and slams it down on the dresser.]
• BLANCHE: Please don’t get up STANLEY: Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried.
• Blanche is singing in the bathroom a saccharine popular ballad which is used contrapuntally with STANLEY’S speech
• casting my pearls before swine
• Tiger, tiger- Drop the bottle top, drop it. We’ve had this date with eachother from the beginning