Poker scene analysis.

The poker scene is an important scene as it illuminates the personality of certain characters.At first instance,it is apparent that Stanley is the dominant speaker and is in the control of the opening sequence ;he has the most lines.Williams uses different syntax to demonstrate this dominance.Imperatives are used by Stanley such as'Get off the table Mitch'.The use of imperatives indicate Stanley's willingness to establish his predominance over his friends perhaps because he is losing.Interrogatives are also used such as'Openers'.The choice of noun by William could suggest his aggresivity but also his petulant behaviour as it a short abrupt word.The use of stage direction also include a dynamic verb'tosses' which could indicate his predominance over the other characters.Stanley is also the character which gives his opinion through the use of triplets and declarative sentence.'Nothing Belongs on a poker table but cards,chips and whisky.

Williams uses the stage direction to describe the men around the poker table.His use of props, which is the characters shirts'solid blues,purple.This indicate their virility but also emphasises his masculinity.Steve and Pablo are described as really focused to the poker game occuring.Steve asks Pablo'Anything wild with this deal'. and Pablo says 'one-eyed jacks are wild.'Mitch however is shown as sensitive but also responsible.Williams uses a declaractive sentence such as 'I gotta sick mother.She don't sleep until i come home at night'Consequently Mitch is a contrast compare to the other men.

EXTRACT 2

When Blanche and Stella return, Blanche is the dominant speaker asking Stella about how she looks.Blanche seems to be anxious about her appearance and asks Stella for reassurance.Williams uses an imperative to indicate Blanche's anxiety.'Wait till i power before you open the door'.The use of imperatives and Blanche being dominant speaker suggests she is driving the conversation.

Williams uses the term numerous times the verb'bathe' through Blanche in a really ambiguous which allows the audience to interpret their own meaning of it.The explicit meaning is that she often 'bathes' to remove the negative events that she experienced in her past including the death of her lover Allan.Notwithstanding the more implicit explanation could be her will to return to her young age which she met Allan.Perhaps,Blanche believes it is a path for her to clean herself and look young again.

EXTRACT 3

Williams use of stage direction reveals to the audience that Blanche has a certain interest.'Blanche looks after him with a certain interest'Blanche immediately tells Stella that Mitch'seems superior to the others'refering to the other men.William indicates through Blanche use of interrogatives'Is he married?'.This could indicate William's belief in love at first sight which Blanche seemed to be directly indicating to the audience.

Blanche approaches Mitch in a sympathetic manner.She scrupulously listens to his tragic story which is linked to the inscription in his cigarette box.After Mitch has revealed his tragic story,Blanche replies with 'Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think'.Williams uses abstract nouns , but also alliteration to emphasis the importance of sorrow and sincerity in the themes of the play.They reinforce the Blanche's journey at the Kowalski's.After experiencing the sorrow at Laurel, she is not sincere to the others about her past.Therefore she lies to Mitch, but wants to come across in a good light.This could suggest that Blanche and Mitch are playing their own game of poker as bluffing is involved similarly to a game of poker played.

Mitch's tragical story indicates that he has also experienced the death of a lover.Similarly Blanche is in the same position,where she attempted to get out of numerous times without success.Immediate, us as audience members can draw a link between the two characters which seem to be suiting each other.They both require someone in their lives and this could a significant reason why they might be attracted to each other.

The radio is an important prop in the scene.It allies Blanche and Mitch as they wonderfully dance together,however Stanley does not seem to be pleased with the radio disturbing the intense poker game.When Stanley throws the radio out of the window, dynamic are words by Williams such as 'snatches and tosses'.I believe this foreshadows the moment where Stanley hits Blanche.This aggresivity indicates something will occur.

When Blanche experiences Stella being hit , she immediately screams and runs into the kitchen.This indicates that she is incongruous to violence.Mitch is embarrassed by what occured and says'It's terrible'.Eunice is defensive , and prevents Stanley to get anywhere close Stella'Quit that howling out there and go back to bed'.

At the end of Scene 3, Stanley shows another side of his personality.Since his entrance Stanley was portrayed as violent,aggresive and chauvinistic.However a weaker wide of Stanley comes through.Williams uses a metaphor to indicate Stanley's love to Stella.'My baby doll's left me'.The stage direction indicates that 'he breaks into sobs'.The audience feels sympathetic towards him as he is now the weaker character out of the two, not the 'provider' he came across at the beginning when he threw the meat at Stella.The consistant use of the pronoun'my' indicate that Stanley is possesive, and really loves Stella.Williams also uses a simile'like a baying hound to compare to an animal , however this time the animal he is compared with is innocuous unlike the way he is portrayed in the rest of the play.

Stella returns to Stanley for numerous reasons.At first instance , the audience understands that there is a passionate relationship between the two based on sexual intercourse.It is apparent that Stella really loves Stanley.We learned that during the first dialogue between Stella and Blanche where she says'When he comes back, i cry on his lap like a baby.'Love is the main reason why Stella returns to Stanley.