| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第11-21页 |
| ·Heller’s Progress to the Literary Sanctum | 第12-14页 |
| ·Catch-22 in the Great Society—Social Background of Something Happened | 第14-16页 |
| ·Effort in Writing a Novel Different from the First One | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Motivation of This Dissertation | 第17-21页 |
| ·Literature Review of Something Happened | 第17-19页 |
| ·The Significance of This Dissertation | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter II Seeking Love in a Wasteland—Slocum’s Questing | 第21-38页 |
| ·An Introduction to Sartrean Existentialism | 第23-25页 |
| ·Two Faces of Human Being—Slocum Living in the Bad Faith | 第25-31页 |
| ·Narcissistic Personality of Slocum—the Progress of Seeking Identity | 第31-34页 |
| ·Slocum’s Morbid Action | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter III One-Dimensional Man—Slocum’s Alienation | 第38-52页 |
| ·Something Happened to American Dream | 第40-41页 |
| ·Alienation | 第41-47页 |
| ·The Cause of Alienation | 第42-44页 |
| ·Self-alienation and Self-realization | 第44-47页 |
| ·One-Dimensional Thought—Society without Opposition | 第47-52页 |
| Chapter IV The Style of Slocum’s Narration | 第52-61页 |
| ·Joseph Heller as a Jewish-American Writer | 第52-54页 |
| ·Compulsion to Talk—Wordy Style of Slocum’s Narration | 第54-57页 |
| ·The Relationship between the Novel’s Theme and the Style of Slocum’s Narration | 第57-58页 |
| ·Word Game of Slocum | 第58-61页 |
| Chapter V Conclusion | 第61-67页 |
| ·Degeneration Happened | 第62-64页 |
| ·The Transcendence of Bad Faith | 第64-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-69页 |
