| Acknowledgements | 第8-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| Part One A Review of Consumer Culture | 第15-18页 |
| Part Two Out of Desire, Instincts or Only Mark of Culture | 第18-34页 |
| 2.1 Sister Carrie: contrastive themes and characters | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2 Primary Observation on the Consumer Culture in Sister Carrie | 第19-22页 |
| 2.3 The mark on Carrie and Hurstwood | 第22-27页 |
| 2.4 Jennie Gerhardt: Parallel themes and characters | 第27-34页 |
| Part Three Doubts About Modern Consumer Culture | 第34-42页 |
| 3.1 Dreiser's probe of human being's fate | 第34-37页 |
| 3.2 Dreiser's pessimism in the two novels | 第37-42页 |
| Part Four Conclusion | 第42-45页 |
| Bibliography | 第45-47页 |
