This can be seen in the play but is more evident in the film as Kazan presents Blanche as having an innocent expression on her face and no acknowledgment of her worries as she walks away from the house at the end without a second glance back at Stella. Kazan never loses the significance behind the symbolism of the streetcars and the intentions Williams had when writing them into the play.
On another aspect of the significance of symbols, Williams uses animal characteristics to depict his characters' nature. Stanley in both the film and play is depicted as an ape as well as a lion at times, animals that are dominating and strong. He stakes out his territory by prowling around the house at the first sight of Blanche, he eats with his fingers and grunts continuously. In the opening scene of the play he throws raw meat at Stella almost like an animal home from the kill. The image that comes across from the animalistic movements described and shown is a man that is a raw and primitive being, fitting in with Stanley's firm grasp of reality and hate of anything fake. A complete contrast to Stanley is Blanche where "There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth" (pg117). Kazan shows this in her arrival at New Orleans, where she flutters from one side of the street to the other. Blanche is shown as being delicate and, just like a moth she feels the most comfortable in the dark. The animals used to represent Stanley and Blanche magnify the cruelty in which he shows towards her. It's like setting an ape against a moth, the reader and viewer see the unfairness of the match from the beginning. .
Through the use of light in both stage directions and dialogue, Williams is able to symbolise the past and truth, two things which Blanche couldn't handle. When Blanche met her husband it was like " a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadows.
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