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 * SCENE NINE**

Mitch dumps Blanche. - “I don’t think I want to marry you anymore”. She starts going mental, talking to herself. - [as if to herself]: Crumble and fade and-regrets-recriminations… “If you’d done this, it wouldn’t’ve cost me that!”. Mitch starts to see her true colors.
 * SUBJECT**

“I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them.” Blanche does not want to deal with reality, she wants to live in fantasy, in her own world as she can’t deal with reality/the truth characterized by the light. “Don’t turn the light on!” - She can’t deal with the truth. “I like it dark. The dark is comforting to me.” “I don’t tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth”. - Like a Flamingo, Blanche likes to put on the performance, to create and impose her on reality on reality. She wants to put on her facade.
 * BLANCHE**

“ The music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape it and the sense of disaster closing in on her” - Again, living in a world of fantasy.

 * //(EXPRESSIONISM//)

IMPURE** and **IRONIC** - “You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother”. No matter what she can do, no matter how many ‘baths’ she takes’ she cannot get rid of her past. - **DRAMATIC IRONY-** Blanche knows that he knows about her past... - Tries to PLEASE Mitch as she detects his surliness. “MITCH: I don’t like fans.”, “BLANCHE: “Then let’s turn it off, honey. I’m not partial to them.”.

Blanche is at her most expressive in this scene. [She throws back her head with convulsive, sobbing laughter. Then she repeats the statement grasps, and drinks,] Mitch on the other hand speaks in a very concise manner speaking in short sentences. The disparity enforces the contrast that is being drawn between the two. Blanche is very much in control of her speech (english teacher background), and in this scene uses sarcasm and constructs metaphors in an attempt to get away from the accusations “Yes, a big spider! Thats where I brought my victims!”.
 * DIALOGUE**

Reluctant to give up Blanche. - [fumbling to embrace her]. - “I wasn’t going to see you anymore” “He is unshaven”, distraught, reluctant to see Blanche. “She offers him her lips. He ignores it and pushes past her into the flat.” Taken aback by Blanche’s bi-polarness. “Are you boxed out of your mind?”.
 * MITCH**
 * BELOW Blanche's EXPECTATIONS** - “My, my, what a cold shoulder! And such uncouth apparel!”.

Characterized by the MEXICAN WOMAN. - “Flowers for death.” Blanche is frightened “No, no! Not now! Not now! [She darts back into the apartment, slamming the door.] - She is scared of her past coming back to her and of reliving the death of her innocence and youth.
 * THEME OF DEATH (death of her youth)**

She doesn’t want to be seen in the light, which corresponds to her putting on a facade, a show. Mitch wants to see her true colors - “What it means is I’ve never had a real good look at you Blanche. Let’s turn the light on here. - “He turns the light on and stares at her. She cries out and covers her face.”.
 * SYMBOLISM**

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