| Declaration | 第1-5页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review and Theoretical Framework | 第15-24页 |
| ·.The definition of community | 第15-18页 |
| ·Review of the relevant Faulkner criticism | 第18-20页 |
| ·Theoretical framework | 第20-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Influences of the Community upon the Individual | 第24-48页 |
| ·.The pain of conformity upon the Compsons | 第24-29页 |
| ·.Pressure for consensus | 第25-27页 |
| ·The threats of loss of individuality caused by conformity | 第27-29页 |
| ·Institutions and forces that reinforce conformity | 第29-40页 |
| ·The repression of community norms and the burden of obsolete norms | 第29-32页 |
| ·Caddy's agony caused by community expectations | 第32-35页 |
| ·The harm of community gossips to the Compsons | 第35-37页 |
| ·Function of the community as lookers-on in the Compsons' tragedy | 第37-40页 |
| ·Great pain inflicted by the disastrous interpersonal relationship | 第40-44页 |
| ·The lack of tolerance in the community | 第40-42页 |
| ·Failure to interact with other members of the community as another factor for individual tragedy | 第42-44页 |
| ·The community's severe punishment of Caddy | 第44-48页 |
| ·The Community's hostility to Caddy | 第45-46页 |
| ·The expulsion of Caddy from the town | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter 4 Responses of the Individual to the Pressure from the Community | 第48-62页 |
| ·.The pain of the individual's integration into the community | 第49-51页 |
| ·The suffering caused by the individual's alienation from the community | 第51-62页 |
| ·Caddy's suffering of solitude | 第52-54页 |
| ·Tragedy of the Compsons despite their palliative measures | 第54-58页 |
| ·.Evasive deflections | 第54-55页 |
| ·Illusive substitutive satisfactions | 第55-57页 |
| ·Destructive intoxicating substances | 第57-58页 |
| ·Quentin's suicidal act | 第58-62页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第62-67页 |
| Works Cited | 第67-70页 |
