| Abstract in Chinese | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in English | 第4-7页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第7-19页 |
| ·Family background and financial state | 第7-9页 |
| ·Intellectual preparations | 第9-11页 |
| ·Social reality | 第11-13页 |
| ·Personal factors | 第13-15页 |
| ·Reading lists | 第15-19页 |
| Chapter 2 First Principles and its influence on Sister Carrie | 第19-50页 |
| ·the plot of the novel | 第19-20页 |
| ·First Principles' doctrines and Sister Carrie | 第20-50页 |
| ·the doctrines of the "Unknowable" as reflected in the cases of Carrie and Hurstwood | 第21-31页 |
| ·the principles of determinism as embodied in Sister Carrie | 第31-36页 |
| ·Evolutionary theory and Sister Carrie | 第36-40页 |
| ·the principles of "the struggle for existence" and "the survival of the fittest" and the characters in Sister Carrie | 第40-50页 |
| Chapter 3 the effects The Data of Ethics on Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie | 第50-60页 |
| ·Self-actualization as a legitimate human conduct | 第50-53页 |
| ·Hedonistic doctrine as embodied in Sister Carrie | 第53-60页 |
| Chapter 4 Conclusion | 第60-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-67页 |
| 本人在读期间科研成果简介 | 第67-69页 |
| Ackmowledgements | 第69页 |
