Flamingo? No! Tarantula was the name of it! I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms!
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 9. Blanche gives this ironic answer when Mitch confronts her about her sordid past, asking if she stayed in a hotel called the Flamingo. She says it was called the Tarantula Arms, a metaphor of herself as an evil seducer and deadly spider preying on her male victims.