[A Vendor comes around the corner. She is a blind Mexican woman in a dark shawl, carrying bunches of those gaudy tin flowers that lower class Mexicans display at funerals and other festive occasions. She is calling barely audibly. Her figure is only faintly visible outside the building.]
MEXICAN WOMAN: Flores. Flores. Flores para los muertos…
BLANCHE [frightened]: No, no! Not now! Not now!
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 9. Tennessee Williams’ play is haunted by death. An old lady dressed in a black shawl appears before Blanche offering her flowers for the dead – "Flores para los muertos." The lady represents all the people Blanche loved who have died, including parents and husband, and left her alone. The flower vendor is sometimes seen as another hallucination and creation of Blanche’s mind.