| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One Old Jolyon: A Man of Character | 第12-22页 |
| ·Galsworthy the Novelist and Galsworthy the Playwright | 第12-13页 |
| ·Patriarch and Dissenter of the Forsyte Family | 第13-19页 |
| ·The Family, Home-Castle, and Individualism | 第14-16页 |
| ·Patriarch and Dissenter | 第16-19页 |
| ·Epitomization: Old Jolyon and the Empire | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter Two Pursuit of Beauty: Old Jolyon’s Philosophy of Aestheticism | 第22-32页 |
| ·The Aesthetic Movement and the Religion of Art | 第22-25页 |
| ·The Aesthetic Movement | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Religion of Art | 第24-25页 |
| ·Old Jolyon’s Pursuit of Beauty | 第25-32页 |
| ·Irene: Incarnation of Beauty | 第26-27页 |
| ·Old Jolyon’s Sense of Beauty in The Man Of Property | 第27-29页 |
| ·Old Jolyon’s Pursuit of Beauty in Indian Summer of a Forsyte | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter Three Pursuit of Uprightness: Old Jolyon’s Principle of Ethics | 第32-40页 |
| ·Protestant Ethics and Victorian Morality | 第32-37页 |
| ·Protestant Ethics and Its Contribution to the Spirit of Capitalism | 第32-34页 |
| ·Victorian Morality | 第34-37页 |
| ·The Late Superintendent Case: Conflict Between Compassion and Business Sense | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Four Pusuit of Possession: Old Jolyon’s Understanding of Property | 第40-48页 |
| ·The Sense of Property | 第40-46页 |
| ·The Forsyte Family and the Sense of Property | 第41-42页 |
| ·Soames: the Man of Property | 第42-44页 |
| ·Encroachment of Outsiders on a Possessive World | 第44-46页 |
| ·Importance of the Sense of Property and the Cure of It | 第46-48页 |
| Conclusion | 第48-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-55页 |
| Appendix | 第55-57页 |
