| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Life and Career of Sinclair Lewis and the Creation of the Images | 第16-25页 |
| ·Life and career of Sinclair Lewis | 第16-19页 |
| ·The psychograph of Sinclair Lewis | 第19-22页 |
| ·A puzzling personality | 第19-21页 |
| ·Enchanted, bounded and intrigued Lewis | 第21-22页 |
| ·The impact upon the creation of the images by such unique psychograph | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Four Images of Protagonists in Sinclair Lewis's four Masterpieces | 第25-61页 |
| ·Settings of the images | 第25-31页 |
| ·Events in history at the time of the novels | 第25-28页 |
| ·Postwar politics | 第25-26页 |
| ·Prohibition | 第26页 |
| ·Modern morals | 第26-27页 |
| ·Car culture | 第27-28页 |
| ·Literary trend at the time of the novels | 第28-31页 |
| ·Jazz Age | 第28-29页 |
| ·Lewis's literary tendency | 第29-31页 |
| ·Analyses of the Four Images of Protagonists in Sinclair Lewis's Four Masterpieces | 第31-58页 |
| ·General rule of image development: familiar stranger | 第31-33页 |
| ·The shared features of images in Lewis's novels | 第33-35页 |
| ·Carol Kennicott: an idealistic designer and impractical performer, an image of rebellion | 第35-39页 |
| ·Babbitt: a conformist, the typical 'TBM', a sympathized image with a doomed future | 第39-47页 |
| ·Arrowsmith: an idealist and truth-seeker, a grant and heroic image | 第47-53页 |
| ·Dodsworth: a quixotic hero, the perfect doer and the embodiment of American Spirit, a most agreeable image | 第53-58页 |
| ·The implied America presented through the images | 第58-61页 |
| Chapter 4 Methods of Depiction | 第61-71页 |
| ·Satire | 第61-63页 |
| ·Language Characteristics | 第63-66页 |
| ·Documentary Description: Photograph | 第66-68页 |
| ·Contrast | 第68-71页 |
| Conclusion | 第71-73页 |
| Works cited | 第73-78页 |
