| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-26页 |
| ·Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O’Connor | 第10-16页 |
| ·The Origin and Development of Grotesqueness in American Literature | 第16-18页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第18-26页 |
| Chapter 2 The Grotesques: Images and Attributes | 第26-43页 |
| ·Anderson’s Grotesques: Lovable and Pitiable | 第26-36页 |
| ·Wing Biddlebaum in Hands | 第28-31页 |
| ·Alice Hindman in Adventure | 第31-33页 |
| ·Elizabeth Willard in Mother and Death | 第33-36页 |
| ·O’Connor’s Grotesques:Ugly and Despicable | 第36-43页 |
| ·Hulga in Good Country People | 第37-39页 |
| ·Grandmother and Misfit in A Good Man Is Hard to Find | 第39-43页 |
| Chapter 3 The Grotesques: Causes and Solutions | 第43-60页 |
| ·Causes of Their Grotesqueness | 第43-52页 |
| ·Anderson’s Grotesques — Suppressed by Society | 第43-47页 |
| ·O’Connor’s Grotesques — Victimized by Nihilism | 第47-52页 |
| ·Solutions to the Grotesques | 第52-60页 |
| ·For Anderson’s Grotesques — Sudden Moment of Self-epiphany | 第52-56页 |
| ·For O’Connor’s Grotesques — Drastic Redemption by the Grace | 第56-60页 |
| Chapter 4 The Grotesques: Writing Sources | 第60-69页 |
| ·Anderson’s Small Town Complex | 第60-63页 |
| ·O’Connor’s Deep-rooted Catholicism | 第63-69页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第69-71页 |
| Works Cited | 第71-75页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文和取得的科研成果 | 第75页 |
