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• Chance and Blanche are similar because they are both afraid of losing their
youth.
• Stage directions are important because they reflect the messages behind
the dialogue and actions.
• He’s not in love with Heavenly but in love with his youth and she’s the
last part of his youth left.
• Ironic that she’s called Heavenly because she’s dead inside as she is minus
a womb.
• He’s in love with the memory of her doesn’t know the new her. She is his
youth.
• Lots of references to youth and music, wind, birds etc which creates an
atmosphere.
• Lots of gruesome, harshness, aggression, violence and racism.
• Chance is a good guy deep down
• Boss is a STANLEY!!! He’s egotistical like Stanley.
• Sex!-Chance is a male prostitute. He’s like Blanch, selling himself.
• Princess demands sex from Chance-like Stanley does to Blanche.
• Heavenly is destroyed by sex. Sex is dangerous.
• Don’t do sex and drugs!!!
Chance:
He’s an opportunist.
He knows he’s getting old, so tries to find ways to retain his youth, the main
way being sex.
Similar to Blanche-he wants to live in a fantasy world.
He wants to recapture his youth through Heavenly, similar to Blanche again
who wanted to recapture the time with her husband.
His name is symbolic-he’s spontanious; he takes risks, similar to a casino-
always wins.
Nothing against him, but has some faults. He’s quite superficial and
materialistic.
Stops at nothing to get what he wants.
He embodies the theme of youth being fleeting and transitory.
You can’t spend your whole adult life, yearning for your youth.
He’s a nice guy deep down, but doesn’t do himself any favours.
Blanche and Chance are similar as they can’t move on from their stage of
youth.
He’s got a superior attitude and is quite selfish.
Stage directions on page 17 – chance runs a comb through his hair… suggests
vanity and is quite like Stanley. He appears to be really good looking.
Page 27 Chance – “I used to be the best looking boy…” Boy is interessting as
that is what you call a young person.
Boss Finlay-
Princess
Heavenly Finlay