| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| ·Introduction to Flannery O'Connor | 第12-13页 |
| ·Literature Review and Significance of Wise Blood | 第13-15页 |
| ·Thesis Statement | 第15-18页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Grace in Old Testament | 第18-22页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Religious Tradition in American South | 第22-28页 |
| ·Flannery O'Connor's Firm Belief in Catholicism | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Incarnation of Religion in Flannery O'Connor's Works | 第24-25页 |
| ·Religious Crisis in American South | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Violence in Reality and in Fiction | 第28-40页 |
| ·Violence as an Approach to Break the Dilemma of Decaying Ethics | 第29-31页 |
| ·Dilemma of Decaying Ethics and Its Root Reasons | 第29-31页 |
| ·Solution to Break the Dilemma of Decaying Ethics | 第31页 |
| ·Reasons for Southerners'Resort to Violence | 第31-33页 |
| ·Embodiment of Violence in Wise Blood | 第33-36页 |
| ·Dismemberment of Women | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Abandoned Children | 第34-35页 |
| ·Policemen's Cruelty | 第35页 |
| ·The Escalation of Violence | 第35-36页 |
| ·Violence in Gothic Tradition | 第36-40页 |
| ·Gothic Style as the Reflection of Violence | 第36-37页 |
| ·Manifestation of Gothic Style in Wise Blood | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Grace Behind Violence | 第40-52页 |
| ·The Protagonist's Spiritual Changing Process | 第40-45页 |
| ·Betrayal to Religion | 第41-43页 |
| ·Conversion to Religion | 第43-45页 |
| ·Reasons for the Protagonist's Spiritual Changes and Solution to Convert | 第45-49页 |
| ·Reasons That Caused the Protagonist's Spiritual Changes | 第45-48页 |
| ·Violence as an Approach Hazel Adopted to Convert | 第48-49页 |
| ·Grace Befalling the Protagonist | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| References | 第54-56页 |
