| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-11页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·About Bernard Malamud and The Assistant | 第11-12页 |
| ·Critics on The Assistant at Home and Abroad | 第12-14页 |
| 2 The Jewishness and The Assistant | 第14-18页 |
| ·The Definition of Jewishness | 第14-15页 |
| ·Jewishness in The Assistant | 第15-18页 |
| ·Malamud's Consciousness for Jewishness | 第15-16页 |
| ·Malamud's Jewishness Elements in The Assistant | 第16-18页 |
| 3 Jewish Suffering with Moral Growth | 第18-31页 |
| ·Jews'Rootless Exile:A Historical Perspective for Jewish Suffering | 第18-19页 |
| ·Jewish Soured Expectations and Endless Frustrations | 第19-23页 |
| ·Morris:Grocery as an Image of Prison | 第19-20页 |
| ·Morris:An Ethical Model under Suffering | 第20-23页 |
| ·Jewish Renewal from Suffering | 第23-31页 |
| ·Frank Alpine with Dual Person:Bad Ward and Good St.Francis | 第23-25页 |
| ·Frank's Moral Struggle and Final Renewal under Morris'Moral Influence | 第25-28页 |
| ·The Significance of Frank's Moral Redemption:All Men Are Jews | 第28-31页 |
| 4 Jewish Irony and Humor:Laugher in Tears | 第31-41页 |
| ·The Features of Jewish Humor | 第31-35页 |
| ·Definition of Jewish Humor | 第31-32页 |
| ·Jewish Humor Through Soured Tears | 第32-35页 |
| ·Jewish Irony | 第35-41页 |
| ·Verbal Irony Used by Characters | 第35-37页 |
| ·Situational Irony Used by Characters | 第37-41页 |
| 5 Jewish Assimilation | 第41-46页 |
| ·The Definition of Assimilation | 第41-42页 |
| ·The Impossible Full Assimilation in The Assistant | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Interaction Between Jews and Gentiles in The Assistant | 第44-46页 |
| 6 Conclusion | 第46-48页 |
| 7 Bibliography | 第48-49页 |
