In this scene Tenessee Williams shows the inevitability and fatality of the rape as Blanche cannot escape it. Indeed, this scene reminds the audience of the first encounter between Blanche and Stanley, Blanche’s trunk is in “the center of the bedroom”, Stanley “remov[es] his shirt” and Blanche’s has been drinking alcohol and Stanley joins in. This similarity between the two scenes makes it appear as though this was always meant to be since the beginning, everything was leading up to this final moment. Furthermore, in the beginning of the scene, Blanche breaks a mirror “slams the mirror face down with such violence that the glass cracks”. It is common to hear that breaking a mirror will bring seven years of bad luck to the person responsible,
