| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Introduction | 第13-28页 |
| Chapter One:Consumption of the Symbolic Value in The Zoo Story | 第28-38页 |
| 1.1 The Young Outcast in Confrontation with the Conformist Middle-class | 第28-32页 |
| 1.2 Symbolic Consumption Betraying Class Differentiation | 第32-34页 |
| 1.3 The Economical Setting with Alienation Effect | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter Two:Production of Consumption in The American Dream | 第38-47页 |
| 2.1 The People Following the Crowds and their Disregard for Family | 第38-41页 |
| 2.2 The Infatuation with Commodity and the Meaninglessness ofSpeech | 第41-43页 |
| 2.3 The Suburbia House in Need of Fix Showing the SocialDeterioration | 第43-47页 |
| Chapter Three:Consumption's Potentiality for Subversion in Who's Afraidof Virginia Woolf? | 第47-56页 |
| 3.1 Sacrilegious Verbal Attack and Escapism from Consumerist Society | 第47-50页 |
| 3.2 The Illusory Child Showing Consumerist Dreams and Desires | 第50-53页 |
| 3.3 The Claustrophobic Living Space Foreboding Possible Destruction | 第53-56页 |
| Conclusion | 第56-59页 |
| Works Cited | 第59-66页 |
