| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-19页 |
| A. V. S. Naipaul and his works | 第9-12页 |
| B. V. S. Naipaul's largely autobiographical novel A House for Mr. Biswas | 第12-14页 |
| C. Significance of studying the rover image in A House for Mr. Biswas | 第14-19页 |
| Chapter One Economic Dependence | 第19-32页 |
| A. Protagonist Mr. Biswas | 第20-27页 |
| 1. Depending on Tara’s bounty | 第21-23页 |
| 2. Depending on the Tulsis | 第23-25页 |
| 3. Working for the Sentinel and renting the house of Mrs. Tulsi | 第25-27页 |
| B. The Tulsis | 第27-30页 |
| 1. Depending on the sons-in-law in Hanuman House | 第27-28页 |
| 2. Disintegration of the Tulsis in the Shortfalls | 第28-30页 |
| C. Economic dependence caused by the colonialist plunders of the economic resources | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Two Spiritual Independence | 第32-47页 |
| A. House pursuit of the protagonist Mr. Biswas | 第32-41页 |
| 1. House of parents in pastoral and the crowded house of wife in Arwacas | 第33-36页 |
| 2. Several decorated or built houses | 第36-40页 |
| 3. House in Sikkim Street with debt of 3000 dollars | 第40-41页 |
| B. Sons-in-law of the Tulsis | 第41-44页 |
| 1. Accepting their fates | 第42-43页 |
| 2. Showing their independence | 第43-44页 |
| C. Realistic dilemma of independence in post-colonied Trinidad | 第44-47页 |
| Chapter Three Affective Complexity | 第47-57页 |
| A. Affective complexity of the protagonist Mr. Biswas | 第47-53页 |
| 1. Hating the Tulsis | 第47-49页 |
| 2. Helping the other poor people | 第49-50页 |
| 3. His hopes --- children | 第50-53页 |
| B. The other characters | 第53-54页 |
| C. Affective complexity derived from the poverty and the laziness | 第54-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Notes | 第59-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-64页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第64-65页 |
| Academic Achievements | 第65页 |
