| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter ONE.INTRODUCTION | 第11-26页 |
| ·General Evaluation of Eugene O'Neill and the Plays before Him | 第11-12页 |
| ·Family Members | 第12-16页 |
| ·James O'Neill | 第13页 |
| ·Ella O'Neill | 第13-15页 |
| ·Jamie O'Neil | 第15-16页 |
| ·O'Neil himself | 第16页 |
| ·His plays and Awards | 第16-17页 |
| ·Review and Studies about His Plays | 第17-20页 |
| ·Existential Studies | 第20-26页 |
| Chapter TWO.THE POINT OF CHOOSING THE THREE WORKS | 第26-32页 |
| ·Representativeness | 第26-28页 |
| ·Theme | 第28-30页 |
| ·Beyond-choice between realizing dreams and living the reality | 第28-29页 |
| ·Journey-choice between forgetting the past and living n the present | 第29-30页 |
| ·Iceman-choice between escaping the society and facing the society | 第30页 |
| ·Stage of Life | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter THREE.THE POSSIBLE LINK WITH EXISTENTILISM | 第32-40页 |
| ·The Books Influencing Him | 第32-34页 |
| ·Desperate Pursuit of Art | 第34-36页 |
| ·Preserved Situation in the Plays | 第36-39页 |
| ·The Subjective Feelings in His Works | 第39-40页 |
| Chapter FOUR.ANALYSIS OF THE THREE WORKS | 第40-72页 |
| ·Analysis of the Main Content | 第40-44页 |
| ·The Characters' Failures | 第44-56页 |
| ·Beyond | 第44-47页 |
| ·Robert-conscious loss of self | 第44-45页 |
| ·Andrew,the unconscious loss of self | 第45-46页 |
| ·Ruth,a life defined by others | 第46-47页 |
| ·Journey | 第47-51页 |
| ·Mary Tyrone,rapture between family warmth and drug-taking | 第47-48页 |
| ·James Tyrone,the broken American dream---over-realistic materia pursuer | 第48-49页 |
| ·Jamie Tyrone,isolation---the lonely rebellious poet for love and care | 第49-50页 |
| ·Edmund Tyrone,sense of abandonment---the bounded freedom seeker | 第50-51页 |
| ·Iceman,a play about breaking illusions and welcoming death | 第51-56页 |
| ·Larry:misled Taoist hermit---waiting for death | 第51-53页 |
| ·Hickey:pipe dream breaker | 第53-54页 |
| ·Other people in Hope Hotel:pipe dreamers | 第54-56页 |
| ·Existential interpretation of failures of O'Neill's characters | 第56-72页 |
| ·Briefs about Existentialism | 第56-60页 |
| ·Existential interpretation of their failures | 第60-72页 |
| ·Avoid choice making---Ruth,Mary | 第61-62页 |
| ·Self-deception---Mary,Hickey,Andrew,Robert | 第62-64页 |
| ·Enslavement to hard situation---Robert,Mary,Ruth | 第64-66页 |
| ·Life without transcendence---Edmund,Larry | 第66-67页 |
| ·Hell is other people---Jamie | 第67页 |
| ·Escape of responsibility---Hickey,Jimmy,Mary,Ruth | 第67-69页 |
| ·Alienation and degraded self---James Tyrone,Andrew Mayo | 第69-70页 |
| ·Pipedream---inmates in the hotel | 第70-72页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE.CONCLUSION | 第72-79页 |
| ·Understanding of "Care Of Oneself" together with the interpretation of the characters | 第72-74页 |
| ·Understanding of the Existential link and the Existential reasons of the failures | 第74-75页 |
| ·Failures-the Herald of the Beat Generation,another Interpretation | 第75-76页 |
| ·Concerning about Women's Failures | 第76-77页 |
| ·Significance Today | 第77-79页 |
| REFERENCES | 第79-81页 |
