| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abbreviations | 第8-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter One: Fatal Encounter with Different Intrusions | 第15-25页 |
| Ⅰ. Intruders in Different Forms | 第15-17页 |
| Ⅱ. Shock of the Intrusion upon Normal People | 第17-21页 |
| Ⅲ. The Fatal Encounter of the Victim with the Intruder | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter Two: Death Within Domestic Context | 第25-35页 |
| Ⅰ. Death of Children Caused by Their Parents | 第25-28页 |
| Ⅱ. Death of Parents Unwittingly Rejected by Their Children | 第28-32页 |
| Ⅲ. Characteristics of Conflicts between Two Generations | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter Three: Death-haunted Characters | 第35-42页 |
| Ⅰ. Ruby Hill: A Woman in Dilemma | 第35-37页 |
| Ⅱ. General Sash: The Silent Arrival of the Approaching Death | 第37-39页 |
| Ⅲ. Asbury Fox: Transforming Power of Death | 第39-42页 |
| Chapter Four: O'Connor's Vision of Death | 第42-52页 |
| Ⅰ. Death and Grotesques | 第42-44页 |
| Ⅱ. Death Related to Evil and Divine Grace | 第44-46页 |
| Ⅲ. Death as the Consequence of Displacement | 第46-47页 |
| Ⅳ. The Convergence of Death and the Motif of Home | 第47-49页 |
| Ⅴ. The Authorial Strategy to Link Her View with the Reader | 第49-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-58页 |
| 学位论文独创性声明 | 第58页 |
| 学位论文版权的使用授权书 | 第58页 |
