A Streetcar Named Desire Scene 11 analysis

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run
of wat er can be heard
The portieres are partly open on the poker players-STANLEY
, ST EV E, t
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MITCH and P ABLo-who sit around tht table in the kitchen. Th
of the kitchen is now the sam e raw , lur id one of the disastro us poker.
sphere
night.
been crying (\
The building is framed by the sky of turquoise. ~ TELLA has
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as she arranges the flowery dresses in the open trunk.
EU NIC E comes down the stepsfrom herflat above
and enters the kitchen. aJ
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l! k ,# Sr"ANLEY [prodigiously tlattdj:
believing you're lucky.1Take a
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M\XlVJbiliea:~figurcd that 4 out of S would nrat7rnnre-t1niougn-ourrwow ...
~~ _J and I did. I put that down as a rule. To hold front position in this
a1l k.CM rat-racc,Y.ou've got to believe you are lucky.
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MITCH: rou ••• you ••• you. ••• Brag ... brag ... bull ... bull.

STELLA goes into tht bedroom and st'!rts folding a dress. b"o~€1)
Sr AN LEY: 'What's the matter with him?
EUNICE [walking past tht table]: I always did say that men are callous
~ things with no feelings, but this does beat anything. Making pigs
of yourselves. [She- comes through the portieres into the bedroom.]
STANLEY: What's the matter with her?
STELLA: How is my baby?
EuNICB: Sleeping like a little angd. Brought you some grapes.
[She puts them on a stool and lowers her voice.] Blanche?
STELLA: Bathing.
EUNICE: How is she?
STELLA: She wouldn't ~t anything but asked for a drink.
EUNICE: What did you tell her?
STELLA: I-just told her that-we'd made arrangements for her to
rest in the country. She's got it mixed in her mind with Shep
Huntleigh.
BLANCHE opens the batliroom Joor slightly.
BLANCHE: Stella.
STELLA: Yes, Blanche?
while I'm bathing take the number and
BLANCHE: If anyone calls
tell them I'll call_ right back.
STELLA: Yes.
BLANCHE: That cool yellow silk-the bouclc. Sec if it's crushed.
V ~~ ~ it's not too crushed I'll wear it and on the bpcl that silver :ind
• turquoise pin in the shape of a seahorse. You will find thcn1 in the
~~ 01' heart-shaped box I keep my accessories in. And Stdfa ... Try and
\ ~e.
locate a bunch of artificial violets in that box, too, to pin witl1 tl1c
~ ~·.- U seahorse on the lapd of the jacket.
S,~\\ She closes tl,e door: STELLA tums to EUNICE.