| 摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第11-22页 |
| 1. Introduction to the playwright and his family trilogy | 第11-14页 |
| 2. Literature review | 第14-17页 |
| 3. A history of urbanization and a review of narrative progression | 第17-20页 |
| 4. Layout of the thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter One Imagined Paradises:Cities vs Suburbs | 第22-29页 |
| 1.1 Cities:the imagined paradises for the poor in suburbs | 第22-24页 |
| 1.2 Suburbs:the imagined paradises for the rich in cities | 第24-28页 |
| 1.3 The backdrop of family trilogy | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Two Alienated in "Utopia" | 第29-41页 |
| 2.1 Alienated in family | 第29-37页 |
| 2.1.1 The tense husband-wife relationship | 第29-33页 |
| 2.1.2 The abnormal parent-child relationship | 第33-37页 |
| 2.2 Alienated in cities and suburbs | 第37-41页 |
| 2.2.1 Alienated in cities | 第38-39页 |
| 2.2.2 Alienated in suburbs | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three Victimized in the Urbanization | 第41-46页 |
| 3.1 The damage of nuclear family | 第41-42页 |
| 3.2 The great gap of wealth | 第42-44页 |
| 3.3 The degeneration of morality | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter Four Narrating of Losers | 第46-52页 |
| 4.1 The destruction of readers' expectation in Curse of the Starving Class | 第46-47页 |
| 4.2 Unreliable narration in Buried Child | 第47-49页 |
| 4.3 Incomplete narrative progression in True West | 第49-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-58页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第58页 |
