A Streetcar Named Desire

Symbolism and Allusion?

A Streetcar Named Desire

The entire play in general.

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For Blanche, the polka music represents with her young husband’s suicide.

Blanche uses the allusion to Edgar Allen Poe:

BLANCHE: Oh, I'm not going to be hypocritical, I'm going to be honestly critical about it! Never, never, never in my worst dreams could I picture – Only Poe! Only Mr. Edgar Allan Poe! – could do it justice! Out there I suppose is the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir!

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