| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Academic Achievement | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-22页 |
| 1.1 Doris Lessing and Her The Grass Is Singing | 第12-15页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第15-20页 |
| 1.2.1 Previous Studies at Home | 第15-18页 |
| 1.2.2 Previous Studies Abroad | 第18-20页 |
| 1.3 Significance of the Study and Frame of the Whole Thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Ethical Literary Criticism | 第22-28页 |
| 2.1 Relationship between Literature and Ethics | 第22-24页 |
| 2.2 Development of Ethical Literary Criticism | 第24-25页 |
| 2.3 Main Ideas of Ethical Literary Criticism | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three Pursuit for Truth in Terms of the Relationship between Human and Society | 第28-36页 |
| 3.1 Racial Discrimination | 第29-32页 |
| 3.2 Gender Inequality | 第32-36页 |
| Chapter Four Pursuit for Good in Terms of the Relationship between Human and Human | 第36-44页 |
| 4.1 Relationship between Mary and Her Parents | 第37-41页 |
| 4.1.1 Mary and Her Mother | 第38-39页 |
| 4.1.2 Mary and Her Father | 第39-41页 |
| 4.2 Relationship between Mary and Her Husband | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter Five Pursuit for Sublimation in Terms of the Relationship between Human and Himself | 第44-56页 |
| 5.1 Mary's Loss of Self | 第45-50页 |
| 5.1.1 Mary as a Strayer of Colonial Society | 第45-46页 |
| 5.1.2 Mary as a Dependant of Patriarchal System | 第46-48页 |
| 5.1.3 Mary as a Victim of Racial Segregation | 第48-50页 |
| 5.2 Mary's pursuit for Self | 第50-56页 |
| 5.2.1 Mary's Struggle against Parents for Independence | 第50-52页 |
| 5.2.2 Mary's Struggle against Marriage for Freedom | 第52-53页 |
| 5.2.3 Mary's Struggle against Racism for Love | 第53-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| References | 第58-62页 |
