- Poker night
- Blanche's arrival
- The end
- When Blanche confesses to Mitch
- When Stanley is telling Stella about Blanche.
- Birthday party
- Stanley rapes Blanche
- Blanche threatening Stanley with the broken bottle.
- Blanche and Mitch meeting
- Blanche being dragged away by doctors - Extreme pity.
- Stanley rapes Blanche (off-stage) - Puts audience in Stella's position, ambigiuity and uncertaintity and is the climax of the play therefore, creating tension.
- Birth of Stanley and Stella's child - changes the dynamic of their relationship, Stella would pick her child and the father of her child over Blanche.
- Stanley hits Stella - disgust/shock, and foreshadows later violent events.
- When Mitch tries to have sex with Blanche - changes opinion of mitch (character development)
- Blanche and Stella's meeting - characterisation (learning about them)
- Stanley exposing Blanche - tension/suspense.
- Stanley and Stella finding out about Blanche losing the family home - backstory.
- Blanche telling Mitch about her past husband - backstory, also.
- Fragile
- Lost
- Lonely
- Lively
- Insecure
- Delusional
- Guilty
- Flawed
- Ashamed
- Confident (A false confidence, perhaps?)
- Vulnerable
- Unstable
- Haunted
- Desperate (for love, attention)
STANLEY:
- Confident
- Unhinged
- Arrogant
- Powerful (power struggle with Blanche due to his low social status)
- Superior
- Violent
- Affectionate towards Stella.
STELLA:
- Fairly stable
- Rebel
- Forced to stay with Stanley (baby, money, home, stigma attached to single parents)
- Strong sexual desire for Stanley
- Vulnerable
MITCH:
- Sensitive
- Caring
- Shy
- Changes - becomes angry and slightly violent. (like Stanley)
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