| Acknowledgments | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-19页 |
| ·Alice Munro's Life Experience and Writing Career | 第10-12页 |
| ·Literature Review on Alice Munro's Works | 第12-16页 |
| ·Alice Munro's Latest Masterpiece--Runaway | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Originality of the Thesis | 第17页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Munro's Inheritance of O.Henry's Surprise Ending | 第19-26页 |
| ·Definition of Surprise Ending | 第19页 |
| ·Surprise Ending in O.Henry's Stories | 第19-21页 |
| ·Surprise Ending in Alice Munro's Runaway | 第21-24页 |
| ·The Reversal of Readers' Expectations in Runaway" | 第21-22页 |
| ·Unexpected Outcome of the Plot in "Runaway" | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Revelation of the Characters' Information and Nature in "Runaway" | 第23-24页 |
| ·Munro's Innovation of Surprise Ending | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three Munro's Inheritance of Henry James's Psychological Realism | 第26-41页 |
| ·Definition of Psychological Realism | 第26-27页 |
| ·Psychological Realism in Henry James' Works | 第27-31页 |
| ·Center of Consciousness as a Narrative Point of View | 第27-29页 |
| ·Projecting the Interior world of Protagonists | 第29-31页 |
| ·Psychological Realism in Alice Munro's Runaway | 第31-38页 |
| ·Applying the Center of Consciousness as a Narrative Point of View | 第32-35页 |
| ·Enhancing the Interior World of Protagonists | 第35-38页 |
| ·Munro's Innovation of Psychological Realism | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第41-44页 |
| References | 第44-47页 |
| Publications | 第47页 |
