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"The matron catches hold of Blanches arm and prevents her flight." An aimless, free moth. Suggests her anxiety is calmed? 

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'Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light' The light hides her insecurities.

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"The shadows and lurid reflections move sinuously as flames along the wall spaces"
Self-destruction - flames - warning of danger

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-bathing is an escape from the dirty place of New Orleans
-blanche also seeks rejuvenation, as though the bathwater were a foundation of youth
-cleansing herself from the environment (washing away sins)
"oh i feel so good after my long, hot bath"

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"Lurid reflections"
Said just before rape occurs, then repeated in scene 11, Blanche reliving it, remembering the rape

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Blanche hides from past + light in shadows
Light represents the truth

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"Blanche's dress, a flowered print, is laid out on Stella's bed,"

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"Blanche's dress, a flowered print, is laid out on Stella's bed,"

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The flowers represent youth and fleeting beauty, that quickly decays. The print represents imitation and unoriginal mass production, a lack of originality.

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'Seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the light-bulb, and extends it towards her. She cries as if the lantern was herself' Stanley has mentally and physically destroyed her. Sympathy for Blanche. Context- Elizabeth Browning

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• “They told me to take a streetcar called desire”: refers to the book title, also shows she’s riding towards her desire by riding to New Orleans
• “rutal desire- just- desire”: Blanche about Stanley. Blanche believes stella’s Relationship with Stanley is fuelled by sexual desire and nothing else.
• Blanche has the desire for the conventional housewive role and tries to achieve that through Mitch, “Marry me Mitch.”

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"She has decked herself out in a somewhat solid and crumpled white satin evening gown and a pair of scuffed silver slippers... rhinestone tiara on her head..." Blanche is giving into her made up world, detaching herself from reality. After this scene her mental state rapidly decreases

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"There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth."
-moths are associated with decay
-a moth could act as a counterpart to a butterfly (possibly representing the idea of a Southern Belle that Blanche tries to personify.
-moths are drawn to danger, similar to Blanches self destructive behaviour

"He takes out a lighter" Blanche is attracted to danger, the lighter is an allegory for the boy.
"I can't stand a naked lightbulb" -protecting herself, concealing her truth.
"The matron catches hold of Blanches arm and prevents her flight." An aimless, free moth. Suggests her anxiety is calmed?

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Blanche presents herself as a wealthy and successful. "Next to glass." Could be linked to Blanche's mental state.

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Stanley believes Blanche’s fake jewellery to be real, he has been tricked by her act, much like everyone around her. She wants people to believe in her fantasy, that she still has all her wealth, although she no longer has Belle Reve.