Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the Arabian Nights?
[The Young Man laughs uncomfortably and stands like a bashful kid. Blanche speaks softly to him.]
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 5. Blanche flirts with a young man, using a simile to compare him to a Arabian prince. The Arabian Nights is a collection of fairy tales. The aging Blanche, desperately trying to cling onto her own youth, prefers to live in the world of fantasy and illusion rather than the real world.