田纳西·威廉斯是战后美国戏剧界出现的杰出剧作家。其作品中颇具代表性但又为人们所忽视的两位南方绅士———《玻璃动物园》中的温菲尔德先生和《欲望号街车》中的艾伦 ,是庄园制度下人们对理想的男性的一种定位。他们在时代的变迁下抛弃了原先社会赋予他们的角色 ,开始寻求属于自己的空间 ,并为此付出了代价。他们的产生、发展与消亡与美国南方的庄园经济息息相关。 Tennessee Williams was a prominent playwright in the post-war American theater. Two representative South but not overlooked people in his work, Mr. Winfield in “Glass Zoo” and Allen in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” were the ideal men in the manor system A kind of positioning. Under the changing circumstances of the times, they abandoned the roles that the original society gave them and began to seek their own space and paid the price for it. Their production, development and demise are closely linked with the manor economy in the South of the United States.