| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Introduction | 第8-15页 |
| Chapter One Self-contradicted Narrator | 第15-24页 |
| 1.1 Contradicted Focalization and Narration in "Killing the Rattlesnake" | 第15-20页 |
| 1.2 Conflicted Thoughts and Behaviors in Mate-Selecting | 第20-24页 |
| Chapter Two Misunderstood Characters | 第24-42页 |
| 2.1 Narrator's Personal Involvement | 第24-32页 |
| 2.1.1 Gender Discrimination in Storytelling of Lena Lingard | 第26-28页 |
| 2.1.2 Racial Prejudice in Storytelling of Samson d'Arnault | 第28-32页 |
| 2.2 Narrator's Irrational Responses | 第32-42页 |
| 2.2.1 A Suicide Tramp | 第33-35页 |
| 2.2.2 The Death of Mr. Shimerda | 第35-38页 |
| 2.2.3 The Adversity of Russian Peter and Pavel | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter Three Problematic Value Judgments | 第42-57页 |
| 3.1 Another Narrator in Introduction | 第42-47页 |
| 3.2 ántonia Shimerda in Co-narrated Stories | 第47-52页 |
| 3.3 Willa Cather in the Retrospective Story | 第52-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-63页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第63页 |