| Acknowledgements | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Fitzgerald and his Works | 第13-14页 |
| ·Characteristics of Fitzgerald's Works | 第14-15页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Tender Is the Night | 第15-16页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-26页 |
| ·International Studies | 第18-21页 |
| ·Domestic Studies | 第21-26页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第26-36页 |
| ·The Development of Existentialism | 第26-27页 |
| ·Sartre's Existentialism | 第27-34页 |
| ·Being-in-itself | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Inner World of Being-in-itself:Anxiety and Alienation | 第28-29页 |
| ·Being-for-itself | 第29-34页 |
| ·The Process of Pursuing Being-for-itself:Freedom and Responsibility | 第31-34页 |
| ·Consequences of Choice and Responsibility | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary and Implications | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Four Dick's Spiritual Passage from Being-in-itself to Being-for-itself | 第36-64页 |
| ·Dick's Original Mode of Existence:Being-in-Itself | 第36-48页 |
| ·Dick, A Hero with Dreams | 第36-37页 |
| ·Dick's Being in the Tender Cage | 第37-42页 |
| ·Being in the Night | 第38-39页 |
| ·Being Beneath the Illusory Tender World | 第39-40页 |
| ·Being Under the Symbolic "Light" | 第40-42页 |
| ·Dick's Dilemma in the Tender Cage | 第42-48页 |
| ·Being Anxiety | 第44-45页 |
| ·Being Alienation and Isolation | 第45-48页 |
| ·Dick's Inner Struggling for His Being-for-itself | 第48-59页 |
| ·Freedom of Choice and Responsibility for the Actions | 第48-49页 |
| ·Consequences of Free Choice:Responsibility | 第49-55页 |
| ·Dick's Responsibility for Nicole | 第49-52页 |
| ·Dick's Responsibility for His Marriage | 第52-55页 |
| ·Dick's Self-Reflections on His choice | 第55-59页 |
| ·His Anguish over Responsibilities | 第55-58页 |
| ·His Despair of Being in the Tender Cage | 第58-59页 |
| ·Dick's Final Being-for-Itself | 第59-64页 |
| ·Dick's Coming out of the Tender Cage | 第59-62页 |
| ·Dick's Defining the Truth of His Being | 第62-64页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第64-67页 |
| ·Reflections on the Truth of Human Existence in the Modern Society | 第65-66页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第66-67页 |
| Works Cited | 第67-71页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文和研究成果 | 第71页 |
