Blanche as a character often refers to light in a way of conveying illusions in which she lives her life by, this is demonstrated when Williams writes “the dark is comforting to me”. Darkness implies that Blanche prefers to be hidden from the light of the real world and would rather retreat into darkness where all is merged and obscure, much like an illusion, therefore demonstrating that Blanche choses to live her life in a hazy world were nothing is clear and hence everything can be depicted to her own ideas of making the world much more pleasant than it really is, so she is consumed by illusions. The use of the adjective “comforting” suggests that the dark is a protector and warmth to Blanche which further implies that Blanche uses the dark