| Table of Contents | 第1-5页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| Biographical Notes of Zora Neale Hurston | 第8-9页 |
| Summary of Their Eyes Were Watching God | 第9-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-19页 |
| Chapter One: Gender and Race | 第19-28页 |
| ·The Whites | 第20-23页 |
| ·The Blacks | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Black Men | 第24-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Two: Verbal Power of the Characters | 第28-37页 |
| ·Verbal Power in African Mythology | 第28-30页 |
| ·Verbal Power Displayed in Their Eyes Were Watching God | 第30-36页 |
| ·Nanny's Verbal Power over Janie | 第30-31页 |
| ·Janie Vs. Logan Killicks | 第31-32页 |
| ·Janie Vs. Joe Starks | 第32-34页 |
| ·Janie Vs. Tea Cake | 第34-35页 |
| ·Janie's Verbal Power in the Court | 第35-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Three: Blues-Like Structure | 第37-50页 |
| ·Blues | 第37-38页 |
| ·Blues Structures in Their Eyes Were Watching God | 第38-49页 |
| ·Call and Response, Sense of Confirmation and Revelation | 第38-41页 |
| ·The aab Stanzaic Structure of Blues | 第41-49页 |
| ·Class Positions of Janie's Three Husbands | 第42-46页 |
| ·Logan Killicks | 第42-43页 |
| ·Joe Starks | 第43-45页 |
| ·Tea Cake | 第45-46页 |
| ·Patterns of Janie's Three Marriages | 第46-49页 |
| ·The Pattern of Cinderella and Prince of Janie's First Two Marriages | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Pattern of Isis and Osiris of Janie's Third Marriage | 第47-49页 |
| ·Summary | 第49-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-57页 |
