A Streetcar Named Desire Scene 7 anlysis

58 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE




SCE NE VII
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It is lait afttrnoon in tltiJ..Septembn. k ~~
Tht portitrts are optn and-a tablt' is stt for a birthday supper, with cakt
and flowers.
STELLA is compltting the decorations as STANLEY comes in.

~ ~ ' b e . ~ANLB Y: What's all this stufffor?
~\\-li:f ' STELLA : Honey, it's Blanche\birthday.
df,J)-$ STANLEY: She here?
STELLA: In the bathroom. , '
STANLEY (mimicking): "Washing out some things"?
STELLA: I reckon so.
STANLEY: How l~>1_1g she been in there?
STELLA: All afternoon. • . . ~
STANLE;[mimicking]: :so~g in a hoj ~h"r •
STELLA:Ycs. •
STANLBY: Temperature 100 on the nose, and she soab herself in a
v hot tub. 1• •
~~crsT BLLA: She says it cools her offfor the evening. , ' .
~ STANLEY: And you run out an' get her cokes, I suppose? And serve
?J:_--.:J),~ 'c,m to Her Majesty in rhe tub~[STii.u· shi-ugs.J Set down herc'a
t'\\J ~, minute.
9'-°'u STELLA: Stanley, I've got things to do. . ._
STANLEY: Set down! I've got th' dope on your big sister, Stella. •
STBLLA: S~cy, stop picking on Blanche~ •- . ·- • ••• ·-·- .,
·.t~ll. STANLBYtThat girl calls mt common! , . -· -
~ v , ~ ST)!LLA: Lately you been doing all you can think of to rub her the
C ~ 0-'•,- . ~~ng way, Stanley, and Blanche is sensitive an~ you've _got t?'
tl"i\~. • fcalizc that Blanche and I grew__ up Wldcf yery·Aift"erent arcum-
W.. ~tanCC!_ th,~ you did. . . - • ~ ·-·· ...... .J
\)~ • ~TANtEY: So I been told. And told and told and told! You know
_,.~\).~she's been fc:c:ding, us a pack of lies here? l\,\fC~IMf-fD t ~ E:te,l\
~ STBLLA: No, I don t, and- . ~~ . V
A.Ai~ S:ANLEY: Well, she has. ?owe~cr. _But now the cat's -out· of the i
~ ~ ~\\l, ~ ~ag I I found out some ~gs 1_ • • • • -- . J
~ c,l' STELLA: What-diings?
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STANLE Y: Things I alrea &J~
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• BtANCH B is singi~1 al'4J .sels C....1>
which is ustd controp'i ~ t \ ~I{\
St!LtA [to STANLE Y]: ~~
StANLB Y: Some
StBttA dNow please ~!'!!!!!!l!I ~•~!lll! ll._.'11 !!1_ _.~ ,und i
nnt ~hnnt n,v cict,-r
~\. t;~ ~ ~ $.\e.Lltl us squeamishness she puts _o~ !
eaJ~ ef ~ ~ ~'\. e•s been feeding to Mitch. He ,
t Ma ~'.A ll dun kissed by a fcllow ! But
Vb :o• ~ me lily she is!
b(..~ f®. )(i! >.~ ~ vho from?
d . ~ d~ ~~~U \l!.A ~eplanthasbcengoingthrough
UC~ ~ ~ about her and everybody else iii,
~

\bout her. She is as famous 1n
f the United States, only she is
1 •
called tbc flammgo.
:; , , • , supply-man stops at a hotel b.,, Qi.~
~~ ,
Bt~CB B (singing blithtly]] \Cl1\0l&i\~
.. Say, it•s orily a paper 'Jfioon, Sailing over a ca_rdboard sea
~0 ~\Mf
, u\ OioJ
-But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me!" ~ti(S, \fc(U t
STELLA : What about ,thc--:-Flamingo} ~ . , .
STANLE Y: She stayed there, too. "
STELLA : My sister lived at Belle Revc.
STANLE Y: This is after I~
white fingers! She . ""-A"'
~ ~ ° " SC) ~ lr lily-
~. LL -.'-J hotd h, , ~ _,, ~
which has the advan '• ~ '
•Ao-

I ~' ~
/ of the pcnonaliti 11"1&,11~ 1
llifc
?f goings-on. But e ~ ~ ~ ~
c1- a_ ~h social ~O~ \
kinds t~
> was ~ •
impressed by Dame \RA), 1__ t1L.. h:,, "'" :d by,--e,cp\\11•,il.,
pamc Blanche th3t t ~ ~ ~ ....,~.. , n-k;./ UO
rfor pcrmancntlyL 6o V'\ll .~C\ ra\e ·e she I
showed here. -,.-,, vy
BLANCH E [singing):
"I'ts a Bamum an.d•~•""'l wvuu, JU)t as pnony as
it canoe -
But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me!"
STELLA : ~t-con tempti blc-lie s !J
STANLE Y: Sure, I an sec how you would be upset by this. She ,
pulled the wool over your eyes as much as Mitch's I





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