| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-14页 |
| ·The Author and His Works | 第8-9页 |
| ·Introduction of Lives of The Poets | 第9-11页 |
| ·The Research on E. L. Doctorow and His Novels in China and Abroad | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Arrangement of This Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Loss of Morality in the Society | 第14-23页 |
| ·Dishonesty in The Writer in the Family | 第15-17页 |
| ·Indifference in The Water Works | 第17-18页 |
| ·Betrayal, Infidelity and Violence in Willi | 第18-20页 |
| ·Hypocrisy in The Foreign Legation | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter Three Conflicts between Morality Loss and Morality Reconstruction | 第23-31页 |
| ·Morality Loss as a Hotbed of Social Instability in The Leather Man | 第23-26页 |
| ·Self-alienation | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Loss of Moral Self-regulation | 第25-26页 |
| ·Struggles for Morality in The Hunter | 第26-31页 |
| ·The Dying Female Teacher | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Rejection of Social Evils | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Four The Reconstruction of Morality | 第31-44页 |
| ·Confusion about an Inactive Life | 第32-35页 |
| ·The Quest for Rebirth | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Reconstruction of Social Responsibility | 第37-44页 |
| ·Return to Society | 第37-39页 |
| ·The Awakening of Conscience | 第39-42页 |
| ·The Willingness to Help | 第42-44页 |
| Conclusion | 第44-45页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第45-46页 |
| Bibliography | 第46-48页 |
