| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-19页 |
| ·Carson McCullers’s Life Experience and Her Works | 第10-11页 |
| ·Literature Review on Carson McCullers’s Works | 第11-15页 |
| ·Layout of This Thesis | 第15-19页 |
| Chapter Two Subversion of the Fairy Tale Stereotypes and the Southern Belle Image | 第19-30页 |
| ·Subversion of Traditional Fairy Tale Stereotypes | 第19-21页 |
| ·Subversion of the Southern Belle Image | 第21-30页 |
| Chapter Three Subversion of the Southern Family Image | 第30-38页 |
| ·Traditional Southern Family Image | 第30-31页 |
| ·Subversion of the Intactness of the Family and Father Image | 第31-38页 |
| Chapter Four Reconstruction of the Real Southern World | 第38-48页 |
| ·The Carnival Collective and the Distorted South | 第38-44页 |
| ·Carnival Square and the Real South | 第44-48页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第48-50页 |
| Bibliography | 第50-52页 |