Uses of Colors and lighting in Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire Colors and lighting in A Streetcar Named Desire have many uses and symbolize the tension between the two main protagonists in the text, Blanche and Stanley. These two characters in text are constantly trying to win the attention of Stella by vigorous arguments and confrontations. Throughout the text Blanche is represented by light or subdued colors. These light colors are meant to portray …showed first 75 words of 1686 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1686 total…she is defeated. The doctor soothes her defeat and the lighting becomes steady, "As he speaks her name, her terror subsides a little bit. The lurid reflections fade from the walls, the inhuman cries and noises die out and her own hoarse crying is calmed."(Scene 11). All of Blanches torment has now ended and she is drug out to the insane asylum and all colors and lights in A Streetcar Named Desire fade to black.