| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-21页 |
| ·Sylvia Plath & The Bell Jar in brief | 第10-13页 |
| ·Literature review | 第13-17页 |
| ·Instrument description & thesis statement | 第17-19页 |
| ·An overview of chapters | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Haunting of the Bell Jar | 第21-36页 |
| ·The social context of the 1950s America | 第21-26页 |
| ·The political context: end of the WWⅡ and emergence of the Cold War | 第21-23页 |
| ·The economic context: a booming economy | 第23-24页 |
| ·The cultural context: "the feminine mystique" | 第24-26页 |
| ·Esther/Plath's identity anxieties | 第26-36页 |
| ·Dilemma of choosing between family and career | 第27-31页 |
| ·Ambivalent attitude towards virginity and childbirth | 第31-36页 |
| Chapter Three Closing Down of the Bell Jar | 第36-47页 |
| ·Esther/Plath's Gradual Descent into a Mental Breakdown | 第36-41页 |
| ·Self-adoration | 第36-37页 |
| ·Self-disintegration | 第37-40页 |
| ·Self-destruction | 第40-41页 |
| ·Causes | 第41-47页 |
| Chapter Four Lifting of the Bell Jar | 第47-61页 |
| ·Plath: suicidal fate as an escape from the bell jar | 第47-51页 |
| ·Adherence to conventional femininity: a traditional wife and mother | 第47-49页 |
| ·Troubled marriage | 第49-50页 |
| ·Stunted literary career | 第50-51页 |
| ·Esther: the idealized self of Plath | 第51-61页 |
| ·Defiance of the taboo of virginity | 第52-54页 |
| ·Deconstruction of the maternal myth | 第54-57页 |
| ·Construction of a new unified identity | 第57-61页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第61-63页 |
| Works Cited | 第63-67页 |
| Publications | 第67页 |
