Mitch arrives later that evening. Blanche has been drinking rather heavily. He confronts her with her past life. At first she tries to deny it, but then she confesses that after the death of her young husband, nothing but intimacies with strangers seemed to have any meaning for her. Mitch then tries to get her to sleep with him, and Blanche demands marriage. Mitch tells her she is not good enough, and Blanche screams fire so as to make Mitch leave.
Later that night, Stanley returns from the hospital to find Blanche dressed in an old faded evening dress. He tells her that the baby won't come before morning. She is frightened to stay with him, especially when he begins confronting her with all the lies she has told. As she tries to move around him, he decides that she wouldn't be too bad to interfere with. After a scuffle, he rapes her.
Three weeks later, Stella is packing Blanche's clothes and waiting for a doctor and an attendant to come and take her to the state mental institution. Stella refuses to believe Blanche's story that Stanley raped her. Blanche thinks that an old boy friend is coming to take her on a cruise. When the attendant arrives, she doesn't recognize him and tries to run away. Stanley and an assistant trap Blanche. The doctor approaches and Blanche is quite willing to go with him, having always depended on the kindness of strangers.
