| Introduction | 第1-10页 |
| Chapter One: the Introduction to Toni Morrison's Literary Career and Her Contribution to African-American Literature | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter Two: the Development of Imagery and Its Historical Resource | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter Three: the Origin of Toni Morrison's Symbolic Imagery | 第16-19页 |
| Chapter Four: the Water Imagery in Toni Morrison's Beloved | 第19-40页 |
| 1 Pattern one:an Image of Unbearable Memory of the Past | 第19-27页 |
| 2 Pattern two:an Image of Catharsis | 第27-34页 |
| 3 Pattern three: an Image of Freedom | 第34-40页 |
| Conclusion | 第40-42页 |
| Notes | 第42-44页 |
| Bibliography | 第44-45页 |
