| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One Tennessee Williams's Humanism | 第13-23页 |
| ·About Traditional Humanism | 第13页 |
| ·Tennessee Williams's Humanism | 第13-15页 |
| ·Roots of Tennessee Williams's Humanism | 第15-23页 |
| ·Collision between Puritanism and Gay Identity | 第16-18页 |
| ·Collision between South and North | 第18-20页 |
| ·Influences from D. H. Lawrence & Hart Crane | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter Two Gay Characters | 第23-41页 |
| ·Tom Wingfield: an Enclosed Escapee | 第24-30页 |
| ·To Conceal or Reveal? | 第24-26页 |
| ·Forgotten by Father's Love | 第26-28页 |
| ·Ignored by Mother's Love | 第28-29页 |
| ·Enclosed in His Sister's Candles | 第29-30页 |
| ·Allan Grey: Strangled in a Shout | 第30-33页 |
| ·Blanche's "Phantom Husband" | 第30-32页 |
| ·A Voiceless Outsider | 第32-33页 |
| ·Cats on a Hot Tin Roof | 第33-39页 |
| ·Brick Pollitt: Back and Forth between Two Worlds | 第34-37页 |
| ·Big Daddy: Compromising Between Two Worlds | 第37-39页 |
| ·Tennessee Williams's Heartbreak: The Group of Gays | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three Female Characters | 第41-52页 |
| ·Amanda: an Embattled Mother | 第42-44页 |
| ·Blanche: the Depository of Secrets | 第44-48页 |
| ·"He came to me for help." | 第45-46页 |
| ·"Get hold of myself and make myself a new life!" | 第46-48页 |
| ·Maggie: An Eagle | 第48-50页 |
| ·Defending Her Love | 第49页 |
| ·Defending Her Territory | 第49-50页 |
| ·Tennessee Williams: Sensitive to Their Status | 第50-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-57页 |
