Blanche Dubois Quotes Analysis

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Light Quotes
“I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.” pg. 60
This particular quote doesn’t necessarily shed a lot of “light” on Blanche, but one can assume that she prefers to be in the dark for whatever particular reason.
“I never was hard or self-sufficient enough. When the people soft- soft people have got to shimmer and glow- they’ve got to put on soft colors, the colors of butterfly wings, and put a- paper lantern over the light…. It isn’t enough to be soft. You’ve got to be soft and attractive. And I- I’m fading now! I don’t know much longer I can turn the trick!” pg. 92
Blanche here is obviously speaking of herself here, and letting it show that her insecurities revolve around her looks and mannerisms. She also lies about her age to Mitch to help and hide the fact of how …show more content…
The music picks up at the mention of her deceased husband, and stops when she either hears a gunshot or something similar to a gunshot. It also stops when she simply says it out loud, like on page 115, but it quickly resumes after that. The shot itself is significant because that is the moment that Blanche had turned her light off and only people to see a certain side of her, or, rather, the side she wants people to see. Even a small reference to her hometown of Laurel sets off her memories because that’s where everything happened, that being her husband coming out as gay and then his suicide because of Blanche. Everytime this happens, she has a burning desire for Allan, and longs to be with him again, even though he is gay and could never possibly love her the way she wanted to be loved by him. With each occurence of the polka music, her desire grows and grows until she eventually becomes mentally unstable because of it, and Stella calls for a psychiatric doctor to take her away to place of potentially better
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