"Desire", life, love, lust and beauty.
             The depicted idea of the eminent and radiating title induces and consumes the audience with evocative and tense ideas for sexual innuendoes, capitalising the prerequisite performance for the play to involve dramatic sexual tensions. However, in contrast to the title, the melancholy and hoary surroundings of the old corner building emanates an 'atmosphere of decay', betrayal, self-embrace, ugliness and death. This contrast creates a poignant conflict between the ideal standards that the audience prepare themselves to see.
             Whilst the synchronization between ethnic groups and the humbling sounds of the "blue piano" which meander across the town, they act as a facade when a less than animated 'antique porcelain' figure arrives, anaesthetizing the "cosmopolitan" peoples perceptions and masquerading the disastrous fragility of the character, who secretes a blinding pseudo sense of self-awareness, satisfaction and harmonious characterisation. Here we meet the "moth", an incarnation of a once heavenly, cherished, inspirited woman, who now fears the intense illumination of truth. The sheer oddity of recognising an appearance incongruous to the setting and the tension that the delicate woman endures, supplements the dramatic tension in the audience who can feel the disconcerting impression surrounding this woman and influences their need to know if this is the woman "Stella spoke of".
             Whilst maintaining her inflated emotions and performing a provisional impression which creates a simulated narcotic lore, the weather, though monotonous, and the rickety greyed steps leading through the doors of the house, reflect her impaired mental health and augments a history of pain and degeneration that is inflicted into the acquaintance starved audience.
             Whilst living in slander in the secrecy of her worsening, Blanche drowns her sorro...