| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Table of Contents | 第10-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-20页 |
| ·Writer and Work | 第12-13页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第13-15页 |
| ·Reception Aesthetics | 第15-19页 |
| ·The Thesis and Content | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter One The Pre-dasigned Reader's Expectation Horizon in Native Son | 第20-34页 |
| ·The Publics' Expectation Horizon of Wright's Age | 第20-24页 |
| ·Wright Understands of the Age | 第20-22页 |
| ·Wright's Description of the Age | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Most Attractiveness of the Age | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Expectation Horizon of Three Groups of People | 第24-28页 |
| ·The Superior White Class | 第24页 |
| ·The Struggling Black Race | 第24-25页 |
| ·Communists | 第25-28页 |
| ·The Readers' Expectation of the Racism | 第28-34页 |
| ·The Effect of Racism on the Oppressed | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Effect of Racism on the Oppressor | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Hypocrisy of Justice | 第31-34页 |
| Chapter Two The Potential Reader's Expectation Horizon in Native Son | 第34-52页 |
| ·A New Image Showing the Readers' potential Expectation | 第34-40页 |
| ·Bigger Thomas | 第34-35页 |
| ·"Thomas" and "Bigger" | 第35-38页 |
| ·Bigger's Four Killings | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Potential Symbols Giving the Readers New Expectation | 第40-45页 |
| ·White | 第41-42页 |
| ·Blindness | 第42-44页 |
| ·Other Meaningful Symbols | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Four Voices Highlighting the Potential Expectation | 第45-52页 |
| ·The Third-person Limited Narrator | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Inarticulate Voice of Bigger Himself | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Biased Voice of the Supposedly "Objective" Establishment | 第48-49页 |
| ·Voice of the Lawyer Boris Max | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Three The Significance and Value of the Readers's ExpectationsHorizon in Native Son | 第52-67页 |
| ·The Role | 第52-53页 |
| ·The Theme | 第53-58页 |
| ·The Theme | 第53-54页 |
| ·The Historical Background | 第54-56页 |
| ·The Current Situation of Blacks | 第56-58页 |
| ·The Important Artistic Qualities | 第58-67页 |
| ·Gothic Style & Reader's Expectation Horizon | 第58-62页 |
| ·Naturalism& Reader's Expectation Horizon | 第62-64页 |
| ·Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory & Reader's Expectation Horizon | 第64-67页 |
| Conclusion | 第67-69页 |
| Reference | 第69-71页 |
