From the opening scene you can tell the ambience between Mitch and Blanche is awkward , you know there evening hasn't been enjoyable through Williams stage directions "The utter exhaustion which only a neurassthenic personality can know is evident in Blanche's voice and manner". There conversation is limited because they don't know what to say to one another, when (mitch laughs uneasily) he's hoping for Blanche to say something to start up the conversation. Also he's feeling uncomfortable in the company of Blanche because he feels he hasn't given her the night he has hoped for, he's trying ti make the situation less awkward by laughing. Although it isn't just Mitch that is feeling discomfited Blanche is also feeling the same in the situation there both coming across as if they don't want to be in each others company. When Mitch apologises for not giving Blanche "much entertainment" she states that it's her fault that tonight hasn't been very eventful because she hasn't had the energy to make the effort.
Mitch asks Blanche " Can I - uh - kiss you - goodnight? but she rejects him because he hasn't got her permission to do so. However, Mitch tells Blanche that it's not the first time she's rejected him. She's rejected him before when he had tried for a bit more "familiarity" when he parked his car by the lake one night. Blanche explains that though Mitch's attraction flatters her, she says a single girl becomes "lost" if she doesn't keep her urges under control. She teases Mitch, by saying that he is used to women throwing themselves at him on their first date making out that most women he goes out with are easy.
This is more a commentary than an analysis which is fine in many respects however, it has a tendency to describe and to offer PE rather than PEE or PEEL and you need the explanation and link back to the question.
ReplyDeleteThis is also incomplete and therefore there is some work to do.