| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-21页 |
| ·Malamud’s Life and Works | 第11-15页 |
| ·Literature Review on The Assistant | 第15-21页 |
| Chapter One Richard Rorty and Solidarity | 第21-34页 |
| ·The Core of Rorty’s Thoughts | 第22-26页 |
| ·Richard Rorty’s Solidarity | 第26-34页 |
| ·Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity | 第27-28页 |
| ·Solidarity | 第28-34页 |
| ·Common Fear | 第30页 |
| ·Moral Imagination | 第30-31页 |
| ·Extension of “We” | 第31-32页 |
| ·Reading Literary Works | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Two Frank’s Sense of Solidarity | 第34-48页 |
| ·Jews as Victims | 第34-36页 |
| ·The Bobers’Suffering | 第36-42页 |
| ·Morris | 第36-40页 |
| ·Helen | 第40-41页 |
| ·Ida | 第41-42页 |
| ·Frank’s Moral Progress | 第42-48页 |
| ·Frank as a Helper | 第43-44页 |
| ·Frank as an Assistant | 第44-46页 |
| ·Frank as a Grocer | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter Three Solidarity Between Frank and Others | 第48-59页 |
| ·Frank and Morris | 第49-51页 |
| ·Frank and Helen | 第51-56页 |
| ·Prejudices against Each Other | 第52-53页 |
| ·Sharing Common Sufferings | 第53-54页 |
| ·Being Together | 第54-56页 |
| ·Frank and Ida | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter Four Solidarity in Family and Community | 第59-69页 |
| ·Solidarity of Family Members | 第59-64页 |
| ·Solidarity Between Husband and Wife | 第59-61页 |
| ·Solidarity Between Parents and Daughter | 第61-64页 |
| ·Solidarity in Community | 第64-69页 |
| ·Solidarity among Jews | 第65-66页 |
| ·Solidarity Between Gentiles and Jews | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter Five Solidarity of Human Beings | 第69-77页 |
| ·Everyone as a Jew | 第69-71页 |
| ·Human Solidarity | 第71-77页 |
| ·Speaking for the Jews as Victims | 第72-74页 |
| ·Sharpening the Sensitivity to Sufferings | 第74-77页 |
| Conclusion | 第77-80页 |
| Bibliography | 第80-84页 |
