| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-10页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第10-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-20页 |
| Chapter One George Babbitt's Mid-life Crisis:An Individuation Process from Personato Inner Self | 第20-33页 |
| 1·1 The Persona and Growing Discontent | 第21-25页 |
| 1·2 External Provocative Influence of Paul Riesling and Ted Babbitt | 第25-28页 |
| ·Symptoms of and Babbitt's Reactions to Mid-life Crisis | 第28-33页 |
| Chapter Two The Divides Self of Babbitt: the Utilitarian and the Idealist | 第33-46页 |
| ·Babbitt the Utilitarian's Yearning and Admiration for Material Success, Comfort and Fame | 第33-38页 |
| ·Babbitt the Idealist's Yearning for Nature, Romance and Pioneer Myth | 第38-41页 |
| ·Pull between Opposing Desires:Confusion and Anxiety | 第41-46页 |
| Chapter Three Progressive Machine Technology and Lost Pastoral Ideal | 第46-56页 |
| ·Nature and the Urban-technological Present and Future | 第47-50页 |
| ·The Theme of Lost Ideals and Disappointed Dreams | 第50-52页 |
| ·Crisis Settled:Babbitt's Mid-life Transition and Social Progress | 第52-56页 |
| Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Works Cited | 第58-62页 |
