Scene 8&9

In Scene 8 Blanche finally comes out of the bathroom to find that Mitch is not coming over and no one will tell her why. She asks Stanley to tell a funny joke or story but he refuses. So Blanche tells what she thinks is a funny story about a parrot who had a dirty mouth. Stanley shows the women how he clears the table, he does this by throwing some dishes on the floor. Blanche insists that Stanley has told Stella something but they both keep denying it. They fight about it a bit after Blanche calls Mitch. Stella is very upset with what Stanley did to her sister. At the end of this Scene Stella says take me to the hospital, which means the baby is coming.

In Scene 9 Mitch goes over to talk to Blanche but she still does not know what he has been told. Throughout this whole Scene there is a Mexican woman in the background saying "flowers for the dead". Blanche keeps hearing the polka music that was playing the night she lost her husband. Mitch is angry with Blanche he tells her everything and she says that some of it is lies. She still claims she has never been to a hotel called the Flamingo, but she jokes abouts going to one called The Tarantula Arms. Blanche tells Mitch everything about her past, even about her young husband and how she lost him. Allan was his name and he killed himself because Blanche knew that he was gay and she told him she saw him with the other man. Blanche says she didn't lie to him in her heart. She said she simply didn't want to loose Mitch. Mitch tries to have sex with Blanche and she tells him to stop before she starts yelling fire. He persists and she starts screaming, he says all he wanted to do was get what he had been missing all summer. He tells her she is to dirty to bring in his home with his mother. Mitch is now is gone and Blanche falls to the floor crying.