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Blanche DuBois

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

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Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 6
Time & Place
Stella and Stanley’s Apartment, New Orleans, 1940s
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery–love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me.
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this–kitchen– candle…

Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire Signet Books, 1951, pp.95-6.

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