| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-18页 |
| 1.1 Introduction of Richard Yates and Revolutionary Road | 第11-13页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第13-16页 |
| 1.3 Originality of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| 1.4 Structure of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two Introduction of Rollo May and His Theory on Anxiety | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Three The Wheelers'Lasting Anxiety | 第21-31页 |
| 3.1 The Manifestations of the Wheelers' Anxiety | 第21-26页 |
| 3.1.1 Loneliness and Loss of the Sense of Belonging due to the EmptyCommunity Life | 第21-24页 |
| 3.1.2 Individual's Powerlessness to Love | 第24-26页 |
| 3.2 The Wheelers'Failed Methods for Relief | 第26-31页 |
| 3.2.1 The Constructive Method: Establishing a Community Theater | 第27-29页 |
| 3.2.2 The Negative Method: the Frantic Sexual Behavior | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Four Modernity and the Wheelers'Anxiety | 第31-43页 |
| 4.1 Modernity: a Threat to the Value of Being | 第31-37页 |
| 4.1.1 The Wheelers'Questioning of the Meaning of Life | 第32-34页 |
| 4.1.2 The Wheelers'Ultimate Failure to Pursue the Value of Being | 第34-37页 |
| 4.2 Modernity: a Threat to the Sense of Security | 第37-43页 |
| 4.2.1 The Overwhelming Fears in the Age of Anxiety | 第37-40页 |
| 4.2.2 The Symbiotic Relationship between Frank Wheeler and April Wheeler | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter Five Americanness and the Wheelers'Anxiety | 第43-56页 |
| 5.1 Americanness:Aggravating Loneliness and Alienation | 第43-49页 |
| 5.1.1 Competitive Individualism in American Culture | 第43-46页 |
| 5.1.2 Frank Wheeler's Predicament of Self-alienation | 第46-49页 |
| 5.2 Americanness: Clinging to Conformity and April's Rebelling | 第49-56页 |
| 5.2.1 The Incompatibility between the Development of the Self and AutomationConformity | 第49-52页 |
| 5.2.2 April Wheeler: the Representative of American Revolutionary Spirit | 第52-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Works Cited | 第58-60页 |
| Publication | 第60页 |
