| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in English | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| Chapter I “Bugs in a Jar”: Troubled Individuals in Long Day’s Journey into Night | 第16-30页 |
| 1.Tyrone and Mary: “Only the past when you were happy is real” | 第17-24页 |
| 2.Jamie and Edmund: “I am also called No More”, “it was a great mistake,my being born a man | 第24-30页 |
| Chapter II “Personal is Familial”: Deformed Relationship in The Glass Menagerie | 第30-44页 |
| 1.The absence of supportive and fulfilling marriage | 第31-34页 |
| 2.Estrangement in parent-child ties | 第34-44页 |
| Chapter III “Familial Failures under Social Force”: Family and Society in Death of a Salesman | 第44-55页 |
| 1.The Lomans betrayed by their dreams | 第45-49页 |
| 2.The Lomans and American Dream | 第49-55页 |
| Conclusion | 第55-58页 |
| Works Cited | 第58-61页 |
| 详细摘要 | 第61-63页 |