Paper as a Metaphor in A Streetcar Named Desire -- Tennessee Williams,

Mortgages, foreclosures, directions, letters, poems, telegrams, newspapers, appraisals, songs, even moons (Kolin 1). What do these all have to do with each other? Paper and A tramway Named Desire. Philip C. Kolin points out this metaphor in his article Its only a paper moon The Paper Ontology in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire. Kolin has found that Williams has used paper as a metaphor to describe Blanches and Stanleys faults and desires. Kolin finds this to be a common thread in Williams work but mainly focuses on Streetcar. Williams himself finds paper to be an arouse creation In Williams own words, paper, when properly inscribed, can be sacred, yet when it is subjected to corrupt or untruthful imprints it is profane (2). Its true paper seems to play a very important role in this play. One of the first things Stanley does is throw a red-stained swatch of butcher paper (3), at Stella. After reading or conceive this play, a bloodstained paper and Stanley definitely se em to intertwine with each other. Kolin argues Stanley uses paper ...