| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-8页 |
| Part Ⅰ． A Brief Introduction to Sherwood Anderson | 第8-10页 |
| Part Ⅱ． A Survey of Critics on Sherwood Anderson and His Works both at Home And Abroad | 第10-14页 |
| Part Ⅲ． The Roots of the ”Small-town Complex” of Sherwood Anderson | 第14-20页 |
| 3．1 The fact that Anderson likes to write about small towns is not unrelated with the fact that Anderson himself is a small-towner | 第14-16页 |
| 3．2 Anderson gained benefit from the cultivation of the traditional literary works and writers | 第16-18页 |
| 3．3 The literary movement of”the Revolt from the Village”, like a tornado that engulfed Anderson into it | 第18-20页 |
| Part Ⅳ． The Roads for Anderson to Seek for His Small-town Dreams | 第20-36页 |
| 4．1 A naturalist to worship the landscapes of Mid-western small towns | 第20-22页 |
| 4．2 The catcher of souls of the small towns | 第22-26页 |
| 4．2．1 Beauty and truths are the essential things Anderson found in the small towns | 第23-24页 |
| 4．2．2 The spirit of life runs through the blood of the people in the mid-western small towns | 第24-26页 |
| 4．3 The spokesman of the small-town dreamers | 第26-31页 |
| 4．3．1 Sherwood Anderson, an American dreamer of the small town | 第26-28页 |
| 4．3．2 The triumph of the egg and the failure of the small-town dreamers | 第28-31页 |
| 4．4 The searcher for American Mid-western small-town culture | 第31-36页 |
| 4．4．1 The horse and the saloon culture exposed in Anderson's works | 第32-33页 |
| 4．4．2 The marital relationships were also what Anderson revealed in his works | 第33-36页 |
| Part Ⅴ． A Voice in Literature Study Under the Context of Globalization | 第36-40页 |
| Part Ⅵ． Concluding Remarks | 第40-41页 |
| Notes | 第41-42页 |
| Bibliography | 第42-43页 |
