| 中文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| ·Main Idea of Ethan Frome and Summer | 第8-9页 |
| ·Literature Review about the Novellas | 第9-11页 |
| ·Intention and Structure of the Thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Wharton and Escape Motif in American Fiction | 第13-20页 |
| ·Escape as a Literary Tradition | 第13-15页 |
| ·Escape Motif in Wharton's Novels | 第15-17页 |
| ·Escape in The House of Mirth | 第15-16页 |
| ·Escape in The Age of Innocence | 第16-17页 |
| ·Reasons for Wharton's Fascination with Escape Motif | 第17-20页 |
| ·Wharton's Escape from Social Restrictions | 第17-18页 |
| ·Wharton's Escape from Marriage | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 3 Escapers in Ethan Frome and Summer | 第20-36页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to E.Tory Higgins's Self-discrepancy Theory | 第20-21页 |
| ·Escape from Poverty | 第21-25页 |
| ·The Man Ruined by Poverty | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Women Doomed to be Poor | 第23-25页 |
| ·Escape from Marriage | 第25-29页 |
| ·Escape from the Prison of Marriage | 第26-28页 |
| ·Escape from the Conventional Marriage | 第28-29页 |
| ·Escape from Society | 第29-36页 |
| ·Escape from the Isolated Environment | 第29-31页 |
| ·Escape from the Suffocating Environment | 第31-36页 |
| Chapter 4 The Significance of Escape | 第36-44页 |
| ·Ethan and Zeena's Growth | 第37-39页 |
| ·Charity's Growth | 第39-44页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第44-46页 |
| Bibliography | 第46-49页 |
| Publications during the Postgraduate Program | 第49-50页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第50-51页 |
