"[M]ortgages, foreclosures, directions, letters, poems, telegrams, newspapers, ratings, songs, even moons (Kolin 1)." What do they have to do with each other? Carta and a streetcar called Desiderio. Philip C. Kolin highlights this metaphor in his article "'It's only a paper moon': The Paper Ontology' in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire." Kolin found that Williams used paper as a metaphor to describe Blanche's desires and Stanley's flaws and desires. Kolin believes this is a common thread in Williams' work, but focuses primarily on Streetcar. Williams himself believes that paper is an interesting creation: "In the words of Williams, paper, when properly inscribed, may be sacred, but when subjected to corrupt or false imprints it is profane" (2). It is true that paper seems to play a very important role in this play. One of the first things Stanley does is to throw a "sample of red-stained butcher paper" (3) at Stella after reading or watching this play, a blood-stained newspaper and Stanley definitely seem to intertwine between them Kolin claims that Stanley uses paper ...