| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| English Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of Saul Bellow and His Works | 第11-12页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第12-14页 |
| ·Chief Argument and Structure of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two The Modernistic Dangling Man | 第16-24页 |
| ·Modernism | 第16-17页 |
| ·Modernism in Dangling Man | 第17-24页 |
| ·Absurd and Alienated World Around Joseph | 第17-19页 |
| ·Self-alienation | 第19-21页 |
| ·Anxiety of Death | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Three Existentialist Features in The Adventure of Augie March | 第24-38页 |
| ·General Introduction to Existentialism | 第25-29页 |
| ·Individual Free Choice and Action | 第26-27页 |
| ·Individual Responsibility and the Sense of Anguish | 第27-28页 |
| ·Absurdity of the World | 第28页 |
| ·Alienation of Being | 第28-29页 |
| ·Existentialist elements in The Adventure of Augie March | 第29-38页 |
| ·Absurd and Dark World Around Augie | 第29-31页 |
| ·Darkness Facing Augie | 第31-33页 |
| ·Anxiety of Death | 第33页 |
| ·The Example of Bad Faith---Simon's Existence | 第33-35页 |
| ·Pursuit of Individual Free Choice and Strive for the Authentic Existence | 第35-38页 |
| Chapter Four Subversion of Existentialism in Herzog | 第38-47页 |
| ·Bellow's Criticism to Existentislist Idea of the Origin of Alienation | 第40-42页 |
| ·Ordinary Existence is Authentic Existence | 第42-45页 |
| ·Sociality of Individuals | 第43页 |
| ·Inescapable Influence of Powerful Society to Insignificant Individuals | 第43-44页 |
| ·Ordinary Existence is Authentic Existence | 第44-45页 |
| ·Reconciliation with Reality | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| Bibliography | 第49-51页 |
