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The scene opens in the cluttered kitchen/bedroom where Stanley, Steve, Mitch and Pablo are deep in a noisy poker game, drinking whiskey and tossing watermelon rinds. The men tease each other, exchange bets, and make jokes while the room is lit by a green‑shaded electric bulb. Stella and Blanche enter; Stella introduces Mitch (Harold Mitchell) to Blanche as her brother. Blanche, still in her pink silk brassiere, chats with Mitch, revealing she is a high‑school English teacher in Laurel and that she and Stella are sisters. Mitch explains he works on the precision‑bench in the plant where Stanley travels and that his mother is ill. The men continue to play, escalating arguments. Stanley repeatedly shouts at the women, slaps Stella’s thigh and later throws a radio out the window. A violent confrontation erupts: Stanley attacks Stella, the men grapple, and Stella cries out as she is pulled away. Blanche rushes to help, guiding Stella upstairs. The men subdue Stanley, spray him with water, and finally push him out onto the porch where he sobs, calls for his “baby,” and repeatedly shouts Stella’s name while Eunice from upstairs scolds him. Eunice refuses to let Stella come down, but eventually Stella appears, disheveled and tearful, and the siblings reunite in a desperate, animalistic embrace. The chaotic scene ends with Blanche and Mitch confronting the aftermath, Blanche noting her sister’s pregnancy and expressing terror, while Mitch tries to calm her. Throughout, the poker game continues in the background, underscoring the tension between the crude male world and the fragile women.