When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me.
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 6. Blanche uses a simile to compare the discovery of love to a blinding light that altered her perception of the world. She is speaking about her late husband Allan Gray.