I'm not in anything I want to get out of. But it also shows that he doesn't blame the individual - Stanley - for his actions, but instead blames the poker game, as though the testosterone stirred up were unavoidable and necessary. This characterizes Mitch as someone who believes women are soft and gentle and should be protected from the roughness of poker. 63 & 65) MitchÄuring Stanley's tantrum at the poker game, Mitch twice remarks that women and poker are a bad mix. Poker should not be played in a house with women. That she speaks of talk and action as analogous to a lightbulb shows that she considers the remedy for uncouth behavior and appearance to be a paper lantern, an external cover, rather than a change from within. Blanche takes the naked truth - the stark bare lightbulb, the rude remark - and dresses it up prettily to make everyone happier and everything easier. This line clearly sets up the key theme of illusion vs reality. I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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