| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第11-19页 |
| Chapter One Life With(out)Salvation:Living in Illusion or Reality | 第19-34页 |
| A Novelistic Portrait of a Lower-class Group | 第19-24页 |
| Harry Hope's Hotel and Memphis' Restaurant | 第24-29页 |
| A World With(out)Salvation | 第29-34页 |
| Chapter Two The Past:A Beautiful Illusion or a Miserable Reality | 第34-50页 |
| O'Neill's View of Modern History | 第35-39页 |
| Wilson's View of African American History | 第39-44页 |
| Colored or Literary Personal Past | 第44-50页 |
| Chapter Three Illusion of Future:The Last Resort for Survival or the Insidious Self-Deception | 第50-64页 |
| Presentation of Pipe Dreams of Tomorrow | 第51-55页 |
| The Last Resort for Survival in The Iceman Cometh | 第55-59页 |
| The Insidious Self-Deception in Two Trains Running | 第59-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-68页 |
| Works Cited | 第68-73页 |
