田纳西威廉斯自己的文学创作始终致力于表现“脆弱的美丽”和“残酷的现实”之间的矛盾。《欲望号街车》也同样呼应着这一主题,它关注了美国主流文化下被边缘的亚文化个体以及他们所面对的残酷现实。在这一戏剧中,作者藉由布兰奇的个人悲剧命运,控诉了美国现当代社会的主流文化对亚文化进行迫害的事实。布兰奇作为亚文化的符号和代表所遭受的不公与残酷,揭示了工业文明对农业文明的压制和破坏。 Tennessee Williams’s own literary creation has always been devoted to expressing the contradiction between “fragile beauty” and “cruel reality.” Equally echoed by the theme of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” it focuses on the marginalized subcultures of American mainstream culture and the cruel reality they face. In this drama, with the personal tragedy of Blanche, the author sues the fact that the mainstream culture of the modern and contemporary American society persecutes the subculture. Blanche, as the sign and representative of subculture, suffered from injustice and brutality, revealing the suppression and destruction of agricultural civilization by industrial civilization.