本文通过对劳伦斯的《虹》一书中布兰文一家三代人及书中其他主要人物之间矛盾的阐述及他们性格的分析,试图揭示出作者在小说中用象征主义手法所表现出的强烈的现代主义倾向（即追述十九世纪后半叶英国从传统的乡村社会过渡到工业化社会的历史进程及这一进程给人类带来的深远的心理变化）。本文作者在评论劳伦斯对两性心理等方面描写的手法及其根本目的上也作出了一番尝试。 This essay attempts to reveal the author’s strong symbolism in his novels by analyzing the contradiction between one generation of Brahms and the other major characters in “Hong” and his analysis of their character. (That is, the history of Britain’s transition from a traditional rural society to an industrialized society in the second half of the 19th century and the profound psychological changes brought about by this process to mankind). The author also made some attempts to comment on the practices described by Lawrence in the aspects of psychology of both sexes and their fundamental purposes.