| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-20页 |
| ·Introduction to Toni Morrison and A Mercy | 第11-16页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第16-17页 |
| ·Inferiority Feelings | 第17-19页 |
| ·The Significance of This Thesis | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter One The Origin of Inferiority Feelings | 第20-32页 |
| ·Abandonment by Parents | 第20-25页 |
| ·Florens’Nightmare of Being Abandoned by Her Mother | 第21-22页 |
| ·Jacob’s Being Deserted by His Father | 第22-23页 |
| ·Rebekka’s Being Sold by Her Parents | 第23-25页 |
| ·Suffering from the Living Environment | 第25-32页 |
| ·Sorrow’s Being Regarded as “Absent-minded” | 第26-27页 |
| ·Lina’s Being Regarded as “Heathen” | 第27-29页 |
| ·Willard and Scully’s Being Regarded as Weak | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter Two Compensation of the Inferiority Feelings | 第32-51页 |
| ·Direction of the Drive to One’s Own Person | 第33-40页 |
| ·Florens’Compensation by Longing for Love from Others | 第34-38页 |
| ·Sorrow’s Compensation by Sealing Herself Off | 第38-40页 |
| ·Displacement of the Drive to Another Goal | 第40-47页 |
| ·Lina’s Love to Florens | 第40-42页 |
| ·Willard and Scully’s Change of Their Sexual Orientation | 第42-44页 |
| ·Jacob’s Pursuit of a Grand House | 第44-47页 |
| ·Transformation of the Drive into its Opposite | 第47-51页 |
| Chapter Three Transcendence of the Inferiority Feelings | 第51-59页 |
| ·Florens’Transcendence by Being Spiritually Independent | 第52-55页 |
| ·Transcendence of Being Spiritually Independent | 第53-54页 |
| ·Transcendence by Confronting her Mother’s Abandonment | 第54-55页 |
| ·Sorrow’s Transcendence by Returning to the World as a Mother | 第55-57页 |
| ·Others’Failures in Transcending the Inferiority Feeling | 第57-59页 |
| Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-66页 |
