《欲望号街车》的意义是“现代社会里各种野蛮残忍的势力强奸了那些温柔、敏感和优雅的人”。为了充分体现压倒一切的强大的工业文明对日趋没落、分崩离析的南方种植园文化的瓦解，威廉斯采用了大量的象征手法，揭示他一贯感兴趣的主题：强大的工业文明与日趋没落的种植园文化的碰撞，使得无数南方人在既无退路又无前途的夹缝中苦苦挣扎。 The meaning of “A Streetcar Named Desire” was “all kinds of brutal, cruel forces in modern society raped those who are tender, sensitive and elegant.” In order to fully embody the overwhelming and powerful industrial civilization’s disintegration of the ever-declining and disintegrating culture of the southern plantations, Williams has adopted a great deal of symbolism to reveal the topics he has always been interested in: a strong industrial civilization and an ever-declining plantation The clash of cultures has caused countless Southerners to struggle hard to find a way out without any way out of the way.