| Contents | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第11-14页 |
| Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| Chapter One "Existence before Essence" And the Initiative of the Enlisted Men | 第19-27页 |
| 1. "I think, so I am" and "existence before essence" | 第19-20页 |
| 2. The paradoxical Catch-22 | 第20-22页 |
| 3. The initiative of the soldiers | 第22-27页 |
| Chapter Two The Freedom of Choice in Life | 第27-41页 |
| 1. Freedom of choice | 第27-32页 |
| 1.1. The death of God and the anxiety to choose | 第27-28页 |
| 1.2. Authentic self and Yossarian's choices | 第28-30页 |
| 1.3. Bad faith and the dilemma of Major Major Major | 第30-32页 |
| 2. Freedom and Responsibility | 第32-34页 |
| 2.1. The anxiety to choose and the anguish of responsibility | 第32-33页 |
| 2.2. Yossarian's and Orr's desertion and responsibility | 第33-34页 |
| 3. Freedom and Facticity | 第34-39页 |
| 3.1. "The otherness" and facticity | 第35页 |
| 3.2. The struggles with "facticity" in Catch-22 | 第35-37页 |
| 3.3. Nately's love | 第37-39页 |
| 4. Shortcomings of Sartre's absolute freedom | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three Chaos in the Army | 第41-56页 |
| 1. Absurdity in the army | 第41-49页 |
| 1.1. Absurdity of the enlisted men | 第42-47页 |
| 1.1.1. Absolute freedom and the absurdity of the world | 第42页 |
| 1.1.2. The upper officials' absurd behavior and the strange soldiers | 第42-47页 |
| 1.2. The unusual seemingly absurd storyline | 第47-49页 |
| 2. Army under the black humor | 第49-56页 |
| 2.1. Black humor in Catch-22 | 第49-53页 |
| 2.2. Black humor and existentialism | 第53-56页 |
| Chapter Four Sartre's Anthropological Dialectics and The 256th squadron | 第56-61页 |
| 1. Sartre's anthropological dialectics and Catch-22 | 第56-58页 |
| 1.1 Sartre's separation of man into person-paxis, community, and bloc | 第56页 |
| 1.2 Three layers in Catch-22 | 第56-58页 |
| 2. The criticism of the war as well as the society, against the born freedom of man | 第58-61页 |
| Conclusion | 第61-64页 |
| Notes | 第64-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-68页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第68-69页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第69页 |