| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-18页 |
| 1.1 War and the Novel | 第11-12页 |
| 1.2 War Stories in American Literature | 第12-13页 |
| 1.3 Reviews of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O’Brien | 第13-16页 |
| 1.4 The Design of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 2 War Experience in Reality and in Fiction | 第18-25页 |
| 2.1 Common Life Experience of the Two Authors | 第18-19页 |
| 2.1.1 War Influences from Their Relatives | 第18页 |
| 2.1.2 Experience of Serving in the Military | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2 The Influence of the War Experience on the Two Authors’Life and Works | 第19-22页 |
| 2.2.1 The Influence of the War Experience on Ernest Hemingway | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2.2 The Influence of the War Experience on Tim O’Brien | 第20-22页 |
| 2.3 The Two War Short Stories of the Two Writers | 第22-25页 |
| 2.3.1 Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” | 第22-23页 |
| 2.3.2 Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Telling True War Stories by Separate POV Strategies | 第25-36页 |
| 3.1 The Classification of POV and the Features | 第25-28页 |
| 3.1.1 The Classification of POV | 第25-27页 |
| 3.1.2 Differences between the Third-Person Perspective and the First-Person Perspective | 第27-28页 |
| 3.2 The Two Author’s Choice and Use of Different Narrative Strategies | 第28-32页 |
| 3.2.1 The Limited Third-Person Perspective in “Soldier’s Home” | 第28-30页 |
| 3.2.2 The Limited First-Person Perspective in “How to Tell a True War Story” | 第30-32页 |
| 3.3 Reasons for Their Different Choice on POV | 第32-36页 |
| 3.3.1 Different Time Periods | 第32-33页 |
| 3.3.2 Different Quantity of Information | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter 4 Shared Effects of the Two limited Perspectives | 第36-47页 |
| 4.1 Intense Focus on Only One Character’s View of the War | 第36-38页 |
| 4.1.1 Intense Focus on Krebs’View of the First World War | 第36-37页 |
| 4.1.2 Intense Focus on “My”View of the Vietnam War | 第37-38页 |
| 4.2 Inner Experience of War through the Emotional Journey of a Central Character | 第38-42页 |
| 4.2.1 The Numb State of mind of Krebs in “Soldier’s Home” | 第38-41页 |
| 4.2.2 The Living Desperation in “How to Tell a True War Story” | 第41-42页 |
| 4.3 Realistic Insight of Character | 第42-44页 |
| 4.3.1 The Lost Krebs in “Soldier’s Home” | 第42-43页 |
| 4.3.2 The Absurdity in “How to Tell a True War Story” | 第43-44页 |
| 4.4 Author’s Purpose Accomplished by Respective Choice and Use of POV | 第44-47页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| Works Cited | 第49-50页 |
| Bibliography | 第50-52页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第52页 |
