| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| Chapter One Providential Deaths：Features and Functions | 第17-26页 |
| 1.1 Death and Concealment of Secrets | 第17-20页 |
| 1.2 Death and Liberation from Marriage Bondage | 第20-22页 |
| 1.3 Death and Reconciliation | 第22-26页 |
| Chapter Two Providential Deaths and Philosophy of Death | 第26-34页 |
| 2.1 Faith in Death | 第26-32页 |
| 2.2 Resignation: Solution to Mortality | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Three Artistic Significance of Providential Deaths | 第34-49页 |
| 3.1 Significance in Characterization and Narrative Structure | 第34-38页 |
| 3.2 Aesthetic Education of Humanity | 第38-44页 |
| 3.3 Art of Realism | 第44-49页 |
| Conclusion | 第49-53页 |
| Works Cited | 第53-55页 |
