Mitch says to Blanche at the end of Scene Six, You need somebody and I need somebody too. Could it be you and me Blanche?(TM) With an examination of this scene as your starting point, explore the ways in which Williams presents and u

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Mitch says to Blanche at the end of Scene Six, 'You need somebody and I need somebody too. Could it be you and me Blanche?' With an examination of this scene as your starting point, explore the ways in which Williams presents and uses the relationship of Blanche and Mitch in the play as a whole.

In scene six, Blanche and Mitch return from an unsuccessful night out. The mood from the beginning of the scene is down beat 'the utter exhaustion which only a neurasthenic personality can know is evident in Blanche's voice and manner. Mitch is stolid but depressed.' Mitch feels he has spoiled the evening for Blanche by being dull 'I'm afraid you haven't got much fun out of this evening...I felt all the time I wasn't giving you much - entertainment.' Blanche reacts to this by being an opposing emotion to Mitch by being anxiously happy about the situation 'The one that says the lady must entertain the gentleman - or no dice!' Their conversation swiftly moves onto more serious matters, Mitch talks of his mother's illness and Blanche reveals the story of her husband's suicide after she found him in bed with another man.