And if God choose, I shall but love thee better – after – death!
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 3. Mitch reads the inscription from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet on his silver cigarette case. The poem is about Browning’s intense love for her husband. Blanche says that it is her favorite poem. She identifies with it because her husband died and she appears to love him more after his death, because of the guilt she feels over his suicide.