It is a mid-September afternoon and Stella is preparing a birthday dinner for Blanche. She is decorating the table when Stanley comes home. Blanche is taking another one of her long, hot baths. Stanley has news for Stella about Blanche's past. He has checked out the stories from Shaw and is now prepared to expose Blanche. As he begins to tell Stella the truth about her sister, Blanche is singing and laughing merrily in the bath.
Stanley tells Stella that Blanche was carrying on illicit affairs at the Flamingo Hotel in Laurel. Even the second-class hotel could not ignore her immoral behavior and asked her to leave. That is when she came to New Orleans. Stanley has also learned that Blanche is not on a leave of absence from her school as she claims......
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