| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| 1. Brief introduction to Tennessee Williams | 第11-13页 |
| 2. Brief account of the story | 第13页 |
| 3. Contemporary criticism and my argument | 第13-15页 |
| 4. Brief account of psychoanalysis and the present approach | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ. Social Significance and the Thematic Orientation | 第16-21页 |
| ·The American South vs. post-WWII Industrialism | 第16页 |
| ·Streetcar is not a play of an individual | 第16页 |
| ·The social context of the play | 第16页 |
| ·Williams's call for compassion and understanding as the solution | 第16-21页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ. Character Analysis of Blanche DuBois: a Social Perspective | 第21-41页 |
| ·Characters in Streetcar and their relationships | 第21-23页 |
| ·A general view of Blanche's past | 第23-25页 |
| ·Blanche's aristocratic family | 第23-24页 |
| ·Blanche's marriage with Allan Grey and its aftereffects | 第24-25页 |
| ·Blanche vs. Stanley: a multidimensional antagonism | 第25-33页 |
| ·Moth vs. Mammoth: fragility in the hands of vulgarity | 第25-27页 |
| ·Sex: Stanley's weapon against Blanche | 第27-29页 |
| ·Battle of territorial dominance: contrast between disparate social values | 第29-33页 |
| ·Blanche vs. Stella: two tragic Southern women | 第33-36页 |
| ·The sisterly intimacy: similar southern breeding | 第33-34页 |
| ·Different sexual orientation: reserved vs. liberated | 第34页 |
| ·Different solutions to problems: illusion vs. tolerance | 第34-36页 |
| ·Blanche vs. Mitch: protégé vs. protector or victim vs. victimizer | 第36-39页 |
| ·protégé vs. Protector: Mitch is not a protector | 第37-39页 |
| ·Victim vs. Victimizer: Mitch is a victimizer | 第39页 |
| ·Summary of the character analysis: the broken world | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ. Blanche DuBois's Ego: a Psychoanalytic Approach | 第41-51页 |
| ·The Id-Ego-Superego division of the mind | 第41-42页 |
| ·Blanche's neurotic symptoms | 第42-46页 |
| ·Blanche's loss of identity | 第43-44页 |
| ·Inability of proper sexuality and human contact | 第44-45页 |
| ·Obsessive repentance and profuse illusions | 第45-46页 |
| ·A psychoanalytic summary of Blanche DuBois's neurosis | 第46-51页 |
| ·Blanche's id and the outlet of the libido energy | 第46-48页 |
| ·Blanche's superego: internalization of her cultivation | 第48-51页 |
| Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-54页 |
